blank

Meaning

Adj

1. White or pale; without colour.
2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
3. Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
4. Absolute; downright; sheer.
5. Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
6. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
7. Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
8. Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
9. Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .
2. (obsolete) A nonplus [16th century].
3. The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
4. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
5. An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .
6. An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .
7. A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
8. A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
9. A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
10. Blank verse .
11. A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .
12. A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .
13. A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
14. The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
15. An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
16. A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
17. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard.
18. A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
19. Short for blank cartridge. [since the 19th century].
20. An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].
21. (slang) An ineffective effort which achieves nothing [since the 20th century].

Verb

1. To make void; to erase.
2. (slang) To ignore (a person) deliberately.
3. To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
4. To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
5. To become blank.
6. To be temporarily unable to remember.

Synonyms

empty

vacant

form

space

void

white

gap

empty space

expressionless

😑

hollow

lacuna

bare

vacuous

blank shell

blind

billet

clean

vacancy

ingot

clear

solid

hole

🕳️

vacuum

pure

foolish

stupid

naught

tight

formula

cypher

unwritten

pig

🐖

plain

unoccupied

dummy

deadpan

emptiness

zero

slug

inane

impassive

net

nothingness

open

opening

preform

prosaic

rent

semi-finished product

sheer

sheet

silly

simple

slab

slot

smokeless

smooth

space bar

spacing

spick-and-span

stock

stolid

tab

po-faced

unadulterated

uncompleted

uncomprehending

unfueled

uninhabited

unintelligent

unrecorded

unvaried

vacuity

vain

vista

workpiece

bad bargain

brain fart

coin blank

planchet

vacant land

unlucky number

recording disc

space character

workblank

hair space

prosaical

blank-fire

half-finished product

plate blank

flat blank

die cutting

die-cut

bloom steel

semi-finished metal

stock, web

billet steel

recording biscuit

recorddisk

cut out board

strip breakdown

steel feed

absentminded

place of indeterminacy

absent-minded

adobe

base

blank shot

bloom

breach

cavity

characterless

chink

cipher

cleanly

cloudless

cranny

crevice

dash

💨

dead

💀

declaration

deserted

devoid

discontinuity

drained

dry

dull

featureless

flan

flat

free

🆓

hiatus

ignorant

indent

inexpressive

interstice

lacunae

lapse

loophole

margin

mat

monotonous

mouth

neat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/blæŋk/

Etymology

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.

Sentences

It usually contains a diary , calendar , address book , blank paper , and other sections .