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say it: di-VOYD
devoid is an adjective meaning "completely wanting or lacking". 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.