Hollow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a cavity, gap, or space within: a hollow wall.
  • adj. Deeply indented or concave; sunken: "His bearded face already has a set, hollow look” ( Conor Cruise O'Brien).
  • adj. Without substance or character: a hollow person. See Synonyms at vain.
  • adj. Devoid of truth or validity; specious: "Theirs is at best a hollow form of flattery” ( Annalyn Swan).
  • adj. Having a reverberating, sepulchral sound: hollow footsteps.
  • n. A cavity, gap, or space: a hollow behind a wall.
  • n. An indented or concave surface or area.
  • n. A void; an emptiness: a hollow in one's life.
  • n. A small valley between mountains.
  • v. To make hollow: hollow out a pumpkin.
  • v. To scoop or form by making concave: hollow out a nest in the sand.
  • verb-intransitive. To become hollow or empty.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having an empty space or cavity inside.
  • adj. Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
  • adj. Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
  • adj. Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
  • n. A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies"
  • n. A sunken area in something solid.
  • n. A sunken area, the equivalent to a copse in British English.
  • n. A feeling of emptiness.
  • v. to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive)
  • v. To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior
  • adj. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
  • adj. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled.
  • adj. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound
  • n. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
  • n. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
  • v. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
  • ad. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all. See all, adv.
  • interjection. Hollo.
  • verb-intransitive. To shout; to hollo.
  • v. To urge or call by shouting.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A cavity; a depression or an excavation below the general level, as of the ground, or in the substance of anything; an empty space in anything; a concavity.
  • n. Specifically, a concave space of ground; a piece or tract of land lower than the general level, or hemmed in by hills: used in many place-names in the United States: as, Sleepy Hollow in New York.
  • n. A concave plane used in working moldings.
  • n. A strip of thick paper or of pasteboard cut to the exact height and thickness required for a book for which the boards and cloth are intended, and which acts as a gage for the guidance of the case-makers, and as a stiffener for the cloth at the back of the book between the boards.
  • Having a cavity within; having an empty space in the interior: as, a hollow tree; a hollow rock; a hollow sphere.
  • Having a concavity; concave; sunken: as, a hollow way or road.
  • Resembling sound reverberated from a cavity, or producing such a sound; deep; low.
  • Empty; without contents; hence, without pith or substance; fruitless; worthless: as, a hollow victory; a hollow argument.
  • Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound: as, a hollow heart.
  • Void of meaning or truth; empty; baseless: as, hollow oaths; a hollow mockery.
  • Thorough; complete; out-and-out.
  • Having, as wool, the fibers torn apart, so that it is light and open.
  • Synonyms Empty, void, cavernous.
  • Faithless, iusincere, treacherous, hypocritical.
  • To make hollow; excavate; make empty.
  • To bend into a curved or concave form.
  • Beyond doubt or question; utterly; completely; out-and-out: often with all for emphasis: as, he beat him hollow, or all hollow; he carried it hollow.
  • A variant of hollo.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a cavity or space in something
  • adj. devoid of significance or point
  • n. a small valley between mountains
  • adj. not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
  • n. a depression hollowed out of solid matter
  • adj. as if echoing in a hollow space
  • v. remove the interior of
  • v. remove the inner part or the core of
    • Equivalent
    meaningless    nonmeaningful    tube-shaped    recessed    vasiform    sunken    deep-set    fistulous    cannular    cavernous   
    Antonym
    emboss    projection    hill    elevation    protuberance   
    Verb Form
    hollowed    hollowing    hollowness    hollows   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    enclosed space    cavity   
    Variant
    all   
    Form
    hollowed    hollowing    hollow leg   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    treacherous    faithless    vacant    sunken    syn    deceitful    empty    false    void    low   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Apollo    Rollo    apollo    calo    cefalo    dalo    follow    malo    salo    swallow   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    empty    flat    distant    metallic    bare    sharp   
     
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