Hollow
adj, adv, intj, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 A small valley between mountains.
"He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies."
- 2 a depression hollowed out of solid matter wordnet
- 3 A sunken area on a surface.
"the hollow of the hand"
- 4 a small valley between mountains wordnet
- 5 An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
"a hollow in a tree trunk"
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- 6 a cavity or space in something wordnet
- 7 A feeling of emptiness. figuratively
"a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach"
- 1 to make a hole in something; to excavate transitive
- 2 To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.
"[T]he Converſation (if it may be called ſo) was ſeldom ſuch as could entertain a Lady. It conſiſted chiefly of Hollowing, Singing, Relations of ſporting Adventures, B—d—y, and Abuſe of Women and of the Government."
- 3 remove the interior of wordnet
- 4 remove the inner part or the core of wordnet
- 1 Having an empty space or cavity inside.
"a hollow tree; a hollow sphere"
- 2 Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
"He let out a hollow moan."
- 3 Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. figuratively
"a hollow victory"
- 4 Insincere, devoid of validity; specious. figuratively
"a hollow promise"
- 5 Concave; gaunt; sunken.
"To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow"
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- 6 Pertaining to hollow body position
- 7 Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).
"While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines."
- 1 lacking in substance or character wordnet
- 2 devoid of significance or force wordnet
- 3 as if echoing in a hollow space wordnet
- 4 not solid; having a space or gap or cavity wordnet
- 1 Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow. colloquial, not-comparable
- 1 Alternative form of hollo. alt-of, alternative
Example
More examples"Rain formed pools in the hollow spaces on the rocks."
Etymology
From Middle English holow, holowe, holwe, holwȝ, holgh, from Old English holh (“a hollow”), from Proto-West Germanic *holh, from Proto-Germanic *hulhwą, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólḱwos. Cognate with Old High German huliwa and hulwa, Middle High German hülwe. Related to hole.
From Middle English holowe, holwe, holuȝ, holgh, from the noun (see above).
Compare holler.