devoid of

idiom

: not having (something usual or expected) : completely without (something)

He is devoid of (any) ambition.

The landscape seems to be completely devoid of life.

Examples of devoid of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Visitors can see the remains of the dam and other historical sites, climb its 60-foot-high rock walls, all in a landscape usually devoid of ice and snow. —R. Scott Rappold, Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2026

By this point in the MonsterVerse, though, the lore and silliness is verging on becoming an outright bug rather than a feature, and even the kaiju action seems oddly devoid of scale or stakes — dumb fun, but the dumb-to-fun ratios are off. —James Grebey, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026

The machine that usually hums with ruthless efficiency looked broken, battered, and completely devoid of answers. —Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026

Instead, must investigate the history of the colony and attempt to save it from an impending disaster, all while struggling to survive in the harsh lunar environment devoid of oxygen. —Alan Bradley, Space.com, 5 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for devoid of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove