empty

Meaning

Adj

1. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
2. Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
3. (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
4. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
5. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
6. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
7. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
8. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
9. Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
10. (obsolete) Producing nothing; unfruitful.
11. Hungry.
12. Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.

Verb

1. (ergative, transitive) To make empty; to remove the contents of.
2. (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

Noun

A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.

Opposite of

full, non-empty

Synonyms

hollow

void

vacant

blank

unoccupied

vain

deserted

evacuate

bare

clear

drain

discharge

vacate

become empty

free

🆓

open

naked

emptied

use up

uninhabited

meaningless

pour out

unload

useless

alone

abandoned

spill

make empty

consume

desolate

vacuous

nothing

hungry

exhaust

empty-bellied

abandon

clear out

idle

inane

worthless

unsubstantial

unpack

flow

deplete

unburden

dump

lonely

mere

lifeless

light

Translations

vide

leer

vuoto

vacío

vider

vuotare

leeren

vaciar

leeg

vazio

svuotare

buit

αδειάζω

vacuus

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛmp.ti/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: emty

Inherited from Old English: ǣmtiġ

In summary

From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet.
The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.

Sentences

He looked around at the empty plaza again , feeling less desperate than before .

He was deflated when he found the attic was completely empty .