empty, vacant, blank, void, vacuous mean lacking contents which could or should be present. empty suggests a complete absence of contents.
EMPTY definition: 1. not containing any things or people: 2. not sincere or without any real meaning: 3. without…. Learn more.
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 promise).
Adjective empty (comparative emptier, superlative emptiest) A man sitting in an empty room (1) Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
To pour out or remove (the contents) from something. To transfer or pour off completely. Empty the ashes into a pail. To become empty. To transfer (the contents) into, onto, or on something else.
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 chair or saddle. Void; devoid; destitute of some essential quality or component.
EMPTY definition: containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents. See examples of empty used in a sentence.
See also: bare, blank, clean, drained, empty-handed, fullness, fulness, glassy, glazed, hungry, inexistent [rare], lifeless, looted, meaningless, nonexistent, nonmeaningful, pillaged, plundered, ransacked, stripped, vacant, vacuous, void, white