empty

About 30.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

   an empty purse

2. adjective Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
3. adjective Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
4. adjective Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
5. adjective Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.

   empty words, or threats

6. adjective Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.

   empty pleasures

7. adjective Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.

   empty dreams

8. adjective Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.

   empty brains

Similar words

lifeless void vacuous vacant empty-handed meaningless unfilled bare clean blank

Often followed by

and space of the stomach house room spaces into

Word family

emptied emptier empties emptiest emptily emptiness emptinesses emptying