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empty
Synonyms and Antonyms of empty
- the refrigerator is empty, so weʼll have to eat out
- as the long car trip wore on, we all started to feel a little empty
- spare me your empty apologies because if you were truly sorry, youʼd change
frivolous, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, minor, negligible, slight, trifling, trivial, unimportant
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dotty, empty-headed, fatuous, foolish, half-witted, harebrained, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, mad, mindless, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unintelligent, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany
- an empty task that was assigned just to keep us busy
base, cheap, cheapjack, duff [British], inferior, lousy, low-grade, second-rate
bad, defective, dud, flawed, imperfect, substandard, unsatisfactory
- all of the leads in the missing-person case were turning up empty
in vain, no dice, not worth the candle, of no avail
- the speaker looked out at a crowd of empty faces
engaged, interested, responsive
active, alive, animated, bright, busy, dynamic, effervescent, energetic, expansive, exuberant, lively, vivacious
eloquent, revealing, revelatory
gestic, gesticulant, gesticulative, gesticulatory, gestural
emotional, melodramatic, theatrical (also theatric), unreserved, unrestrained
Synonym Discussion of empty
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- an empty bucket
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- a vacant apartment
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- a blank wall
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- a statement void of meaning
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- a vacuous facial expression
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empty
Synonyms and Antonyms of empty
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