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

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 substance (an empty …

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

5 days ago · Grotesquely vegetal, excessively oaked, empty wines were routinely produced in the mid-1980s. Since the late 1980s, however, the quality has soared.

Empty means without appropriate or accustomed contents: an empty refrigerator. Vacant is usually applied to that which is temporarily unoccupied: a vacant chair; three vacant apartments.

Containing nothing, or nothing but air; void of its usual or of appropriate contents; vacant; unoccupied: said of any inclosure or allotted space: as, an empty house or room; an empty chest or purse; an …

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

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 living any more.

Empty comes from an Old English word meaning "at leisure," or in other words, "unoccupied." Over time, the sense of that meaning changed from "not at work" to "devoid of contents."

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.