empty

Meaning

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.

hollow

void

become empty

make empty

empty-bellied

pour off

not in use

of no avail

poured out

be deserted

throw to the ground

make space for

having nothing

single person

deplenish

tenantless

crack

be unoccupied

void of men

holl

spacious desolate

hollow vacuous

all alone

be vacant

concentrate on

destitude

drop down

flow into

flow out

Frequency

Hyphenated as

emp‧ty

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛmp.ti/

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.

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