empty - Definition | Dictionary definition of empty

Definition of empty

holding or containing nothing

"an empty glass"

"an empty room"

"full of empty seats"

"empty hours"

Synonyms:: bare, stripped
having everything extraneous removed including contents; blank, clean, white
(of a surface) not written or printed on; empty-handed
carrying nothing in the hands; glassy, glazed
(used of eyes) lacking liveliness; lifeless
destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; looted, pillaged, plundered, ransacked
wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value; vacant
without an occupant or incumbent; vacuous
devoid of matter; void
containing nothing

Antonyms:: full
containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; afloat, awash, flooded, inundated, overflowing
covered with water; air-filled
full of air; brimful, brimfull, brimming
filled to capacity; chock-full, chockablock, chockful, choke-full, chuck-full, cram full
packed full to capacity; congested, engorged
overfull as with blood; egg-filled
full of eggs; filled
(usually followed by `with' or used as a combining form) generously supplied with; fraught, pregnant
filled with or attended with; gas-filled
full of a gas; glutted, overfull
exceeding demand; heavy, weighed down
full of; bearing great weight; instinct, replete
(followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; laden, ladened, loaded
filled with a great quantity; overladen, overloaded
loaded past capacity; riddled
spread throughout; sperm-filled
filled with sperm; stuffed
filled with something; untasted, untouched
still full; well-lined
full of money; show more antonyms...

devoid of significance or point

"empty promises"

Synonyms:: hollow, vacuous; meaningless, nonmeaningful
having no meaning or direction or purpose

needing nourishment

"after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"

"empty-bellied children"

Synonyms:: empty-bellied; hungry
feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food

emptied of emotion

"after the violent argument he felt empty"

Synonyms:: drained
emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid)

make void or empty of contents

Antonyms:: fill
make full, also in a metaphorical sense; fill up, make full; show more antonyms...

Types:: show 25 types...; hide 25 types...; bail
empty (a vessel) by bailing; clean out, clear out
empty completely; clinker
clear out the cinders and clinker from; bleed
drain of liquid or steam; evacuate
empty completely; evacuate
create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel); eviscerate
remove the contents of; void
clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something; clear
remove the occupants of; clear
rid of instructions or data; exhaust
use up the whole supply of; knock out
empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out; drain
empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; core out, hollow, hollow out
remove the interior of; gouge, rout
make a groove in; scallop, scollop
form scallops in; hole
make holes in; draw in, suck in
draw in as if by suction; scoop out
hollow out with a scoop; cavern, cavern out
hollow out as if making a cavern; cave, undermine
hollow out as if making a cave or opening; dig, dig out
create by digging; excavate
form by hollowing; core
remove the core or center from; gut
empty completely; destroy the inside of

Type of:: alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

become empty or void of its content

Type of:: change state, turn
undergo a transformation or a change of position or action

leave behind empty; move out of

remove

Type of:: remove, take, take away, withdraw
remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

excrete or discharge from the body

a container that has been emptied

Type of:: container
any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)