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Definitions for Empty

[1] containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
[2] vacant; unoccupied: an empty house.
[3] without cargo or load: an empty wagon.
[4] destitute of people or human activity: We walked along the empty streets of the city at night.
[5] destitute of some quality or qualities; devoid (usually followed by of ): Theirs is a life now empty of happiness.
[6] without force, effect, or significance; hollow; meaningless: empty compliments; empty pleasures.
[7] not employed in useful activity or work; idle: empty summer days.
[8] Mathematics . (of a set) containing no elements; null; void.
[9] hungry: I'm feeling rather empty—let's have lunch.
[10] without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish: an empty head.
[11] completely spent of emotion: The experience had left him with an empty heart.
[12] to make empty; deprive of contents; discharge the contents of: to empty a bucket.
[13] to discharge (contents): to empty the water out of a bucket.
[14] to become empty: The room emptied rapidly after the lecture.
[15] to discharge contents, as a river: The river empties into the sea.
[16] Informal . something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can: Throw the empties into the waste bin.
[17] containing nothing
[18] without inhabitants; vacant or unoccupied
[19] carrying no load, passengers, etc
[20] without purpose, substance, or value an empty life
[21] insincere or trivial empty words
[22] not expressive or vital; vacant she has an empty look
[23] informal hungry
[24] (postpositive foll by of ) devoid; destitute a life empty of happiness
[25] informal drained of energy or emotion after the violent argument he felt very empty
[26] maths logic (of a set or class) containing no members
[27] philosophy logic (of a name or description) having no reference
[28] to make or become empty
[29] (when intr, foll by into ) to discharge (contents)
[30] (tr often foll by of ) to unburden or rid (oneself) to empty oneself of emotion
[31] an empty container, esp a bottle

Words related to Empty

dry, vacant, uninhabited, unfilled, unoccupied, hollow, deserted, devoid, desolate, bare, blank, barren, flat, worthless, meaningless, idle, exhaust, drain, consume, dump

Words nearby Empty

emprise, emprosthotonos, empson, empt, emptor, empty, empty calorie, empty calories, empty cow, empty morph, empty nest

Origin of Empty

before 900; Middle English (with intrusive -p- ); Old English ǣmettig vacant (ǣmett(a ) leisure (ǣ- a-3 + Germanic *mōtithō accommodation; cf. must1, meet1) + -ig -y1)

Other words from Empty

emp·ti·a·ble , adjective
emp·ti·er , noun
emp·ti·ly , adverb
emp·ti·ness , noun
o·ver·emp·ty , adjective
qua·si-emp·ty , adjective
self-emp·ti·ness , noun
self-emp·ty·ing , adjective
un·emp·tied , adjective
un·emp·ty , adjective

Word origin for Empty

Old English ǣmtig, from æmetta free time, from æ- without + -metta, from mōtan to be obliged to; see must 1

Synonyms for Empty

bare, barren, blank, deserted, desolate, devoid, dry, hollow, unfilled, uninhabited, unoccupied, vacant, abandoned, clear, dead, deflated, depleted, desert, despoiled, evacuated, exhausted, forsaken, lacking, vacated, void, wanting, waste, destitute, godforsaken, stark, unfurnished, vacuous