Empty

//ˈɛmp.ti//

Synonyms for "empty" (408 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (82)

Strong matches (122)

drain drain out draw draw from draw off drearisome dreary dry dryasdust dull dumb dump dusty effete eject elephantine eliminate emptied empty bellied empty handed

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Verb(1 words)

drive

Adjective(4 words)

empty as a pauper's purse empty as the tomb on easter hollow lonely

Adjective(2 words)

empty-bellied hollow

Related words (204)

meaningless milk naive nescient new nirvanic nonconnotative nondenotative nugacious nugatory null null and void oblivious of no force otiose outflow outpour overrefined oversubtle pale

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pallid paltry passive peckish pedestrian petty phatic philosophistic phlebotomize pinched with hunger pipette plausible plodding plundered pointless poker faced poker-faced poky ponderous pound pour pour out pump pump out purge purportless purposeless put out quietistic rattlebrained rattleheaded ravening ravenous raw relaxed remove run out sans scatterbrained scour scour out scrambled senseless shallow sharp-set silly simple siphon siphon off slender slight slow sluice sluice out solemn sophistic sophistical specious spent spew spew out spiritless spout spout out spurt stark starved starving sterile stiff stodgy strange to stripped stuffy stupid suck suck out superficial superfluous supernumerary surge surplus sweep out take away take out tap tasteless tedious tentative thoughtfree thoughtless throw out tip tongue in cheek tranquil trifling trite trivial unacquainted unacquainted with unadorned unapprized unavailing unbased uncandid unclog uncomprehending unconversant undecorated unenlightened unexpressive unfamiliar unfilled unfoul unfounded unfrank ungrounded unideaed unilluminated uninformed uninhabitable uninhabited uninitiated unintellectual unintelligent unknowing unlively unload unmeaning unposted unreasoning unrelieved unripe unsatisfying unserious unsignificant unsupportable unsupported unsure unsustainable unsustained untenable untenanted unthinking unused unversed unwarranted useless vacuity vague vain valueless vapid venesect vent voiceless vomit vomit forth voracious wanting waste well well out white wild windy with nothing inside without without basis without content without foundation without rhyme or reason wolfish wooden worthless

Verb(2 words)

unburden vacate

Adjective(6 words)

unfilled unoccupied vacant vacuous vacuumlike void

Adjective(1 words)

vacuous

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

12 relation types

More general

21 entries

alter change change state container egest eliminate excrete go away go forth insubstantial lacking leave modify pass pull remove

Showing 16 of 21 words.

More specific

10 entries

bare hollow unfraught unfreighted unfurnished uninhabited unladen unloaded unstocked unsupplied

Antonyms

5 entries

fill full non empty

Synonyms

5 entries

empty bellied evacuate unoccupied vacate vacuous

Related terms

3 entries

dead soldier empty set ∅

derived

65 entries

come away empty emptiable emptily emptiness empty as a pauper's purse empty as the tomb on Easter empty barrels make the most noise empty base empty calorie empty cans make the most noise empty canvas empty chair empty coaching stock empty constructor empty function empty graph

Showing 16 of 65 words.

distinct from

1 entries

full

has context

2 entries

computing programming

is a

1 entries

container

manner of

3 entries

change change state remove

related to

11 entries

array content devoid element emptyhanded full nothing null string vacant void

similar

31 entries

bare blank clean drained empty handed empty-handed glassy glazed hollow hungry lifeless looted

Showing 16 of 31 words.

Translations

280 translations across 119 languages.

Adyghe

1 entries

нэкӏы adj (devoid of content)

Afrikaans

1 entries

leeg adj (devoid of content)

Albanian

1 entries

bosh adj (devoid of content)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

κενός adj (devoid of content)

Arabic

4 entries

خالي adj (devoid of content)
فاضي adj (devoid of content)
فاضي adj (devoid of content)
فَارِغ adj (devoid of content)

Aragonese

1 entries

vuedo adj (devoid of content)

Armenian

4 entries

դատարկ adj (devoid of content)
ունայն adj (devoid of content)
պարապ adj (devoid of content)
սին adj (devoid of content)

Assamese

4 entries

খালী adj (devoid of content)
আজৰা verb (to make empty)
উদং কৰা verb (to make empty)
খালী কৰা verb (to make empty)

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

1 entries

ܣܦܝܩܐ adj (devoid of content)

Asturian

4 entries

baleru adj (devoid of content)
güecu adj (devoid of content)
lluezu adj (devoid of content)
vacíu adj (devoid of content)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

boş adj (devoid of content)
puç adj (devoid of content)
xali adj (devoid of content)
boş butulka noun (empty bottle)

Bashkir

2 entries

буш adj (devoid of content)
бушатыу verb (to make empty)

Belarusian

1 entries

пусты́ adj (devoid of content)

Bengali

3 entries

খালি adj (devoid of content)
ফাঁকা adj (devoid of content)
খালি করা verb (to make empty)

Bhojpuri

1 entries

खाली adj (devoid of content)

Breton

2 entries

goullo adj (devoid of content)
goullonderiñ verb (to make empty)

Bulgarian

2 entries

пра́зен adj (devoid of content)
изпразвам verb (to make empty)

Burmese

1 entries

လွတ် adj (devoid of content)

Catalan

2 entries

buit adj (devoid of content)
buidar verb (to make empty)

Central Kurdish

4 entries

بەتاڵ adj (devoid of content)
بۆش noun (empty bottle)
بەتاڵ noun (empty bottle)
بەتاڵ کردن verb (to make empty)

Chechen

1 entries

деса adj (devoid of content)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

空 adj (devoid of content)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

空的 adj (devoid of content)
空瓶 noun (empty bottle)

Czech

2 entries

prázdný adj (devoid of content)
vyprázdnit verb (to make empty)

Danish

2 entries

tom adj (devoid of content)
tømme verb (to make empty)

Dutch

3 entries

leeg adj (devoid of content)
leegmaken verb (to make empty)
legen verb (to make empty)

Esperanto

3 entries

malplena adj (devoid of content)
senenhava adj (devoid of content)
malplenigi verb (to make empty)

Estonian

1 entries

tühi adj (devoid of content)

Faroese

2 entries

tómur adj (devoid of content)
tøma verb (to make empty)

Finnish

2 entries

tyhjä adj (devoid of content)
tyhjentää verb (to make empty)

French

3 entries

vide adj (devoid of content)
cadavre noun (empty bottle)
vider verb (to make empty)

Galician

4 entries

baleiro adj (devoid of content)
oco adj (devoid of content)
vacío adj (devoid of content)
van adj (devoid of content)

Georgian

4 entries

ცარიელი adj (devoid of content)
აცარიელებს verb (to make empty)
იცლება verb (to make empty)
ცარიელდება verb (to make empty)

German

4 entries

inhaltslos adj (devoid of content)
leer adj (devoid of content)
ausleeren verb (to make empty)
entleeren verb (to make empty)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃 adj (devoid of content)

Greek

3 entries

άδειος adj (devoid of content)
κενός adj (devoid of content)
αδειάζω verb (to make empty)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

vid adj (devoid of content)

Hebrew

1 entries

ריק adj (devoid of content)

Hindi

4 entries

ख़ाली adj (devoid of content)
छूछा adj (devoid of content)
रिक्त adj (devoid of content)
रिक्त करना verb (to make empty)

Hungarian

2 entries

üres adj (devoid of content)
ürít verb (to make empty)

Hunsrik

1 entries

läer adj (devoid of content)

Icelandic

2 entries

tómur adj (devoid of content)
tæma verb (to make empty)

Ido

3 entries

vakua adj (devoid of content)
vakuigar verb (to make empty)
varsar verb (to make empty)

Indonesian

1 entries

kosong adj (devoid of content)

Ingrian

2 entries

tyhjä adj (devoid of content)
päästää verb (to make empty)

Ingush

1 entries

даьсса adj (devoid of content)

Iraqi Arabic

1 entries

بوش adj (devoid of content)

Irish

3 entries

folamh adj (devoid of content)
bánaigh verb (to make empty)
folmhaigh verb (to make empty)

Italian

3 entries

vuoto adj (devoid of content)
svuotare verb (to make empty)
vuotare verb (to make empty)

Japanese

4 entries

空っぽな adj (devoid of content)
空の adj (devoid of content)
空き瓶 noun (empty bottle)
空にする verb (to make empty)

Kabardian

1 entries

нэщӏ adj (devoid of content)

Kabuverdianu

1 entries

inban adj (devoid of content)

Kashubian

1 entries

pùsti adj (devoid of content)

Kazakh

2 entries

бос adj (devoid of content)
құр adj (devoid of content)

Khmer

2 entries

ទទេ adj (devoid of content)
ទំនេរ adj (devoid of content)

Korean

3 entries

비다 adj (devoid of content)
빈 병 noun (empty bottle)
비우다 verb (to make empty)

Kyrgyz

2 entries

бош adj (devoid of content)
куру adj (devoid of content)

Lao

2 entries

ຫວ່າງ adj (devoid of content)
ເວົ່າ adj (devoid of content)

Latgalian

3 entries

dīks adj (devoid of content)
pūsts adj (devoid of content)
tukšs adj (devoid of content)

Latin

4 entries

cassus adj (devoid of content)
inanis adj (devoid of content)
vacuus adj (devoid of content)
vacuō verb (to make empty)

Latvian

1 entries

tukšs adj (devoid of content)

Ligurian

2 entries

veuâ verb (to make empty)
vuâ verb (to make empty)

Lithuanian

2 entries

tuščia adj (devoid of content)
tuščias adj (devoid of content)

Lombard

1 entries

vodì verb (to make empty)

Lower Sorbian

1 entries

prozny adj (devoid of content)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

eidel adj (devoid of content)

Macedonian

1 entries

празен adj (devoid of content)

Malay

2 entries

kosong adj (devoid of content)
mengosongkan verb (to make empty)

Malayalam

2 entries

ഒഴിഞ്ഞ adj (devoid of content)
തരിശ് adj (devoid of content)

Mongolian

1 entries

хоосон adj (devoid of content)

Māori

3 entries

kautahanga verb (to make empty)
whakangita verb (to make empty)
whakapiako verb (to make empty)

Neapolitan

1 entries

vacante adj (devoid of content)

Nepali

3 entries

खाली adj (devoid of content)
रिक्त adj (devoid of content)
रित्तो adj (devoid of content)

Ngazidja Comorian

1 entries

ruvu adj (devoid of content)

Norman

3 entries

viède adj (devoid of content)
vièdjer verb (to make empty)
viédgi verb (to make empty)

Northern Kurdish

2 entries

vala adj (devoid of content)
vala kirin verb (to make empty)

Norwegian

2 entries

tom adj (devoid of content)
tømme verb (to make empty)

Occitan

4 entries

void adj (devoid of content)
vuèg adj (devoid of content)
vuòg adj (devoid of content)
voidar verb (to make empty)

Old English

2 entries

tōm adj (devoid of content)
īdel adj (devoid of content)

Old French

2 entries

vuit adj (devoid of content)
vuidier verb (to make empty)

Old Norse

1 entries

tómr adj (devoid of content)

Oromo

1 entries

duwwaa adj (devoid of content)

Ossetian

1 entries

афтид adj (devoid of content)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

بوش adj (devoid of content)
خالی adj (devoid of content)

Persian

4 entries

تهی adj (devoid of content)
خالی adj (devoid of content)
پوچ adj (devoid of content)
خالی کردن verb (to make empty)

Polish

3 entries

próżny adj (devoid of content)
pusty adj (devoid of content)
opróżnić verb (to make empty)

Portuguese

3 entries

vazio adj (devoid of content)
casco noun (empty bottle)
esvaziar verb (to make empty)

Romanian

4 entries

deșert adj (devoid of content)
gol adj (devoid of content)
golit adj (devoid of content)
vid adj (devoid of content)

Romansch

1 entries

vid adj (devoid of content)

Russian

4 entries

поро́жний adj (devoid of content)
пусто́й adj (devoid of content)
вынимать verb (to make empty)
вынуть verb (to make empty)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries

falamh adj (devoid of content)
fàs adj (devoid of content)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

prazan adj (devoid of content)
празан adj (devoid of content)
isprázniti verb (to make empty)
испразнити verb (to make empty)

Sicilian

1 entries

vacanti adj (devoid of content)

Slovak

1 entries

prázdny adj (devoid of content)

Slovene

4 entries

prazen adj (devoid of content)
pust adj (devoid of content)
izprazniti verb (to make empty)
prazniti verb (to make empty)

Southern Altai

3 entries

бош adj (devoid of content)
божодор verb (to make empty)
бош эдер verb (to make empty)

Spanish

2 entries

vacío adj (devoid of content)
vaciar verb (to make empty)

Swahili

1 entries

tupu adj (devoid of content)

Swedish

4 entries

tom adj (devoid of content)
tomflaska noun (empty bottle)
tomglas noun (empty bottle)
tömma verb (to make empty)

Sylheti

1 entries

ꠈꠣꠟꠤ adj (devoid of content)

Tagalog

3 entries

basyo adj (devoid of content)
basyo noun (empty bottle)
basyuhin verb (to make empty)

Tajik

2 entries

тиҳӣ adj (devoid of content)
холӣ adj (devoid of content)

Talysh

1 entries

خالی adj (devoid of content)

Tamil

3 entries

காலி adj (devoid of content)
வெறுமை adj (devoid of content)
வெற்று adj (devoid of content)

Telugu

2 entries

ఒట్టి adj (devoid of content)
ఖాళీ adj (devoid of content)

Thai

2 entries

ว้าง adj (devoid of content)
หว่า adj (devoid of content)

Tocharian B

1 entries

aikare adj (devoid of content)

Tongan

1 entries

maha adj (devoid of content)

Turkish

2 entries

boş adj (devoid of content)
boşaltmak verb (to make empty)

Turkmen

1 entries

boş adj (devoid of content)

Ukrainian

4 entries

поро́жній adj (devoid of content)
пусти́й adj (devoid of content)
споро́жнювати verb (to make empty)
спорожни́ти verb (to make empty)

Upper Sorbian

1 entries

prózdny adj (devoid of content)

Urdu

3 entries

خالی adj (devoid of content)
چھوچھا adj (devoid of content)
خالی کرنا verb (to make empty)

Uzbek

1 entries

boʻsh adj (devoid of content)

Venetan

2 entries

vódo adj (devoid of content)
svodàre verb (to make empty)

Vietnamese

4 entries

rỗng adj (devoid of content)
trống adj (devoid of content)
tẩy sạch verb (to make empty)
tẩy trống verb (to make empty)

Walloon

1 entries

vudî verb (to make empty)

Welsh

3 entries

anghyfannedd adj (devoid of content)
coeg adj (devoid of content)
gwag adj (devoid of content)

Yiddish

2 entries

ליידיק adj (devoid of content)
פּוסט adj (devoid of content)

Sample sentences

49 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

My life would be completely empty without you.

Source: tatoeba (18047)

Empty vessels make the most sound.

Source: tatoeba (18299)

I want a few empty glasses.

Source: tatoeba (18302)

Find an empty bottle and fill it with water.

Source: tatoeba (18303)

Showing 4 of 49 available sentences.

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