empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present. empty suggests a complete absence of contents.

He says his life has been completely empty since his wife died. I felt empty, like a part of me had died.

These adjectives mean without contents that could or should be present. Empty is the broadest and can apply to what lacks contents (an empty box), occupants (an empty seat), or …

emp′ti•a•ble, adj. emp′ti•er, n. emp′ti•ly, adv. emp′ti•ness, n. 1. vacuous. Empty, vacant, blank, void denote absence of content or contents.

Empty (God Lives Underwater album) or the title song, 1995 Empty (Nils Frahm album), 2020 Empty (Tait album) or the title song, 2001

EMPTY definition: containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents. See examples of empty used in a sentence.

an empty [= hollow, idle] threat an empty promise Her apology was just an empty gesture. Their promises are just a lot of empty talk/words.

If you feel empty, you feel unhappy and have no energy, usually because you are very tired or have just experienced something upsetting. I feel so empty, my life just doesn't seem worth …

• I think there's an empty seat in the back row. empty space • And her once proud position in the royal line, between her husband and father-in-law, is now an empty space.

Some common synonyms of empty are blank, vacant, vacuous, and void. While all these words mean "lacking contents which could or should be present," empty suggests a complete …