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empty
Synonyms and Antonyms of empty
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lacking contents that could or should be present
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feeling a desire or need for food
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having no meaning
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
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having no usefulness
base, cheap, cheapjack, duff [British], inferior, lousy, low-grade, second-rate
bad, defective, dud, flawed, imperfect, substandard, unsatisfactory
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producing no results
in vain, no dice, not worth the candle, of no avail
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not expressing any emotion
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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Synonyms and Antonyms of empty
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