hollow

Meaning

Noun

1. A small valley between mountains.
2. A sunken area on a surface.
3. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
4. A feeling of emptiness.

Verb

to make a hole in something; to excavate

Adj

1. Having an empty space or cavity inside.
2. Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
3. Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
4. Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
5. Concave; gaunt; sunken.
6. Pertaining to hollow body position

Adv

Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

Verb

To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.

Intj

Alternative form of hollo

Synonyms

cavity

hole

🕳️

empty

depression

pit

cave

concave

sunken

excavate

dent

valley

void

cavern

burrow

scoop

blank

bare

concavity

socket

be empty

gouge

dig

delve

recess

dip

haggard

space

hollow out

depressed

cavernous

vacant

vacuity

vacuous

vacuum

vain

crevice

dimple

deep

indent

false

fissure

trench

deserted

trough

meaningless

gaping

dig out

vale

groove

core out

opening

perforated

basin

cut

holler

pit cavity

bore

quite

ravine

deaf

make hollow

emptiness

impoverished

inane

inner

inside

insincere

interior

interstice

lacuna

lank

light

low

lowland

lumen

mine

miserable

needy

nest

niche

nick

nostril

nothing

orifice

penniless

perforate

pocket

poke into

pot

profound

puddle

punch

👊

rabbet plane

ream

rout

sap

scallop

scoop out

scrape

shaft

shred

sink

specious

swale

swamp

take out

terrace

thoroughly

thoughtless

tricky

trivial

under

undercut

unfueled

unoccupied

unreal

unsubstantial

well

wold

at the bottom

full of holes

low ground

small hole

sunken eyes

hollowedout space

pond in a hollow

midheaven

scollop

crack

hollow space

subterranean hole

resembling a cave

cavern out

dado plane

match plane

hollow-centered

holl

back lining

having gaps

hollowed out space

trenching plane

aperture

gap between objects

appropriate

bay

body

bottom

canyon

carve out

catchy

chaffy

chamber

chamfer

chasm

chip

clearing

colorable

completely

containing water

cranny

crook

crooked

crotch

dark

dead

💀

deceitful

deceptive

delusive

den

destitude

dig into

dig up

dish

ditch

drained

drawn

dredge

drill

drive

dry

elusive

elusory

enclosed space

engrave

evasive

fallacious

fistular

fossa

fraudulent

fully

gap

gorge

gouge out

grooving plane

grotto

gully

hold

holed

holey

hollowed out

hope

idle

illusive

illusory

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈhɒl.əʊ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: holow

Inherited from Old English: holh

Cognate with Old High German: huliwa

Cognate with Middle High German: hülwe

Inherited from Middle English: holowe

In summary

From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.