void

void

adjective

Definition of VOID

1

having no legal or binding force <an agreement is void if obtained by force>

Synonyms bad, inoperative, invalid, nonbinding, nonvalid, nugatory, null and void, void

Related Words illegal; useless, worthless; ineffective, ineffectual

Near Antonyms legal; working

Antonyms binding, good, valid

2

lacking contents that could or should be present <a nuclear explosion that would leave the landscape as void and lifeless as one could imagine>

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

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

Antonyms full

3

utterly lacking in something needed, wanted, or expected <entirely void of common sense>

Synonyms bankrupt, bare, barren, bereft, destitute, void

Related Words blank, empty, innocent, stark, vacant, wanting; deficient, fragmental, fragmentary, incomplete, insufficient, partial, short; absent, missing

Near Antonyms furnished, provided, supplied; brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed; abounding, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging

Antonyms filled, flush, fraught, full, replete, rife

4

left unoccupied or unused <the cornfields lay void under a blanket of snow>

Synonyms derelict, deserted, desolate, disused, forgotten, forsaken, rejected, vacant, vacated, void

Related Words ignored, neglected, unattended, untended; castaway, cast-off, discarded, jettisoned, junked, refuse, waste; godforsaken, miserable, shabby, wretched; empty, idle

Near Antonyms reclaimed, recovered, redeemed, rescued, retrieved, salvaged, saved; reconditioned, rehabbed, rehabilitated, restored; repeopled