Entry Word: devoid

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected <the so-called comedy is totally devoid of intelligence, originality, and even laughs>

Synonyms bereft, destitute, void

Related Words bare, barren, blank, empty, lacking, stark, vacant, wanting; deficient, fragmental, fragmentary, incomplete, partial; absent, missing

Near Antonyms filled, full; furnished, provided, supplied

Antonyms replete

2 lacking contents that could or should be present <the picnic jug was completely devoid of juice after only a few minutes> — see empty 1