emptiness
虚空,空虚,空旷,虚无
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Definitions
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emp·ti·er, emp·ti·est.
- : containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
- : vacant; unoccupied: an empty house.
- : without cargo or load: an empty wagon.
- : destitute of people or human activity: We walked along the empty streets of the city at night.
- : destitute of some quality or qualities; devoid: Theirs is a life now empty of happiness.
- : without force, effect, or significance; hollow; meaningless: empty compliments; empty pleasures.
- : not employed in useful activity or work; idle: empty summer days.
- : Mathematics. containing no elements; null; void.
- : hungry: I'm feeling rather empty—let's have lunch.
- : without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish: an empty head.
- : completely spent of emotion: The experience had left him with an empty heart.
Phrases
- empty calories
- empty nest
- empty suit
- glass is half full (half empty)
- running on empty
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
Netherland, published in 2008, attempted to capture a feeling of emptiness in the West after the catastrophic events of 9/11.
When I contemplate God among the dead I find only emptiness and silence.
Now I think that many are beginning to experience the rawness of the trauma, emptiness, and loss.
“I walk around with an emptiness that no one or anything has been able to fill,” she wrote.
It felt to him that he simply walked straight out of her life into a world of emptiness and ice and shadows.
In the desolate emptiness of desert that yawned ahead, he saw this single tree that blossomed, and offered shade.
All the election officials present check the complete emptiness of the box.
Augustine, however, had been gifted by chance with a spirit lofty enough to feel the emptiness of such a life.
What must be the horror, darkness and emptiness of those living substances that are "inferior" to us?