Refine this word faster
Empty
Definitions
- 1 Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
"an empty purse"
- 2 Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- 3 Free; clear; devoid; often with of. obsolete
"And I ſhal finde you emptie of that fault, Right ioyfull of your reformation."
- 4 Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
"I hope our Ladies treaſure and our owne, May ſerue for ranſome to our liberties: Returne our Mules and emptie Camels backe, That we may trauell into Siria, […]"
- 5 Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
"empty words, or threats"
Show 7 more definitions
- 6 Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
"empty pleasures"
- 7 Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
"empty dreams"
- 8 Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
"empty brains"
- 9 Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
"Empty cow rates have increased in recent years."
- 10 Producing nothing; unfruitful. obsolete
"an empty vine"
- 11 Hungry.
- 12 Lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish.
"Grotesquely vegetal, excessively oaked, empty wines were routinely produced in the mid-1980s. Since the late 1980s, however, the quality has soared."
- 1 holding or containing nothing wordnet
- 2 emptied of emotion wordnet
- 3 needing nourishment wordnet
- 4 devoid of significance or force wordnet
- 1 A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty. in-plural
"Put the empties out to be recycled."
- 2 a container that has been emptied wordnet
- 1 To make empty; to remove the contents of. ergative, transitive
"to empty a well or a cistern"
- 2 excrete or discharge from the body wordnet
- 3 Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination. intransitive
"Salmon River empties on the W shore about 2 miles below Bear River."
- 4 become empty or void of its content wordnet
- 5 make void or empty of contents wordnet
Show 2 more definitions
- 6 remove the contents of a container wordnet
- 7 leave behind empty; move out of wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet. The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.
From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet. The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.
From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ (“vacant, empty, free, idle, unmarried”, literally “without must or obligation, leisurely”), from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô (“must, obligation, need”), *mōtiþô (“ability, accommodation”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“measure; to acquire, possess, be in command”). Related to Old English ġeǣmtigian (“to empty”), ǣmetta (“leisure”), mōtan (“can, to be allowed”). More at mote, meet. The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.
See also for "empty"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Unscramble this word: empty