toom

toom

adj \ˈtüm\

Definition of TOOM

chiefly Scottish

: empty

Examples of TOOM

1. <the little shop in Edinburgh now stood toom>

Origin of TOOM

Middle English, from Old English tōm — more at teem

First Known Use: before 12th century

Related to TOOM

Synonyms: bare, blank, clean, devoid, stark, empty [chiefly Scottish], vacant, vacuous, void

Antonyms: full

Related Words: barren, hollow; available, clear, free, open; unfilled, unfurnished; unattended, uninhabited, unoccupied; abandoned, deserted, emptied, forsaken, vacated; depleted, drained, dry, exhausted

Near Antonyms: complete; replete; furnished, provided, supplied; filled, occupied; flush, overflowing, packed, teeming

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Rhymes with TOOM

bloom, boom, broom, brume, combe, cwm, doom, flume, fume, gloom, glume, groom, khoum, loom, neume, plume, rheum, room, spume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom