empty
空,空的,空空如也,空荡荡的
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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
He defied the atheism of communism and the empty religious practices of Putinism.
Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.
Later schools empty out children, who race over to play games in the shade.
On Thursday, Russian bloggers published pictures of empty shelves in stores that once sold electric goods.
If they are in fact linked to North Korea, the threat may not be as empty as people think.
Herein he found an empty stall that was dark enough not to be seen, and still afforded sufficient light to read in.
When the funeral was over, and they returned to their desolate home, at the sight of the empty cradle Ramona broke down.
A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.
For his heart seemed alternately full and empty; all the life he had was centred there.
In Flanders, he says, they would never attack with empty limbers behind them; they would wait till they were full up.