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say it: di-VOYD
devoid is an adjective meaning "completely wanting or lacking". It is pronounced /dɪˈvɔɪd/ — di-VOYD. It carries one recorded sense.
completely wanting or lacking
“writing barren of insight”
“young recruits destitute of experience”
“innocent of literary merit”
“the sentence was devoid of meaning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for devoid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.