empty

1. 1.

   holding or containing nothing

   “an empty glass”

   “an empty room”

   “full of empty seats”

   “empty hours”

   Antonymsfull

   Similarbareblankempty-handedglassylifelesslootedvacantvacuous
2. 2.

   devoid of significance or force

   “empty promises”

   “a hollow victory”

   “vacuous comments”

   Synonymshollowvacuous

   Similarmeaningless
3. 3.

   needing nourishment

   “after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime”

   “empty-bellied children”

   Synonymsempty-bellied

   Similarhungry
4. 4.

   emptied of emotion

   “after the violent argument he felt empty”

   Similardrained

1. 1.

   a container that has been emptied

   “return all empties to the store”

   Broadercontainer

Other forms of empty

plural

empties·

past tense or participle

emptied

present participle

emptying·

comparative or superlative

emptier

comparative or superlative

emptiest

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.

Questions about empty

What does empty mean?

empty means "make void or empty of contents". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in empty?

empty has 2 syllables: emp-ty. The stress falls on "emp". In IPA it is /ˈɛmpti/.

What is another word for empty?

Close synonyms include discharge, vacate, abandon, evacuate, void. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of empty?

The recorded antonyms are fill, fill, full.

Is empty a common word?

empty is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.