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hollow - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty or dented area |
| Synonyms: | basin, bottom, bowl, cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, channel, cleft, concavity, crater, cup, dale, den, depression, dimple, dip, dish, excavation, groove, gulf, hole, indentation, notch, pit, pocket, sag, scoop, trough, vacuity, valley, void, sinkage, sinkhole, socket |
| Antonyms: | solid |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | empty out; make concave |
| Synonyms: | channel, chase, dent, dig, dish, ditch, excavate, furrow, gorge, groove, indent, notch, pit, remove, rut, scoop, shovel, trench, corrugate, rabbet |
| Antonyms: | fill, raise, make convex |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty, hollowed out |
| Synonyms: | arched, cavernous, cleft, concave, curved, depressed, indented, notched, sunken, unfilled, vacant, vaulted, void, alveolate, carved out, cup-shaped, cupped, deep-set, dimpled, excavated, incurved, infundibular, not solid, pitted, striated, troughlike |
| Antonyms: | convex, full, raised, solid |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep, resonant in sound |
| Synonyms: | cavernous, dull, flat, ghostly, low, muffled, mute, sepulchral, thunderous, vibrant, clangorous, echoing, muted, resounding, reverberant, ringing, roaring, rumbling, sounding, toneless, vibrating |
| Antonyms: | high, light, soft |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | meaningless |
| Synonyms: | empty, fruitless, futile, idle, nugatory, otiose, pointless, specious, unavailing, useless, vain, worthless |
| Antonyms: | earnest, meaningful, sincere, substantial |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, artificial |
| Synonyms: | cynical, deceitful, faithless, flimsy, hypocritical, insincere, treacherous, unsound, weak |
| Antonyms: | frank, genuine, honest, real, sincere, truthful |
| Main Entry: | basin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | container or area where water is held |
| Synonyms: | bay, bowl, concavity, depression, dip, ewer, gulf, hole, hollow, lagoon, pan, pool, pot, sag, sink, tub, valley, vessel, sinkage, sinkhole, washbasin, washbowl, watershed |
| Main Entry: | blank |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty space |
| Synonyms: | abyss, cavity, chasm, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, interstice, interval, lacuna, nothingness, nullity, omission, opening, skip, tabula rasa, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, hollowness, nihility, preterition, pretermission, womb |
| Main Entry: | cave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hole in land formation |
| Synonyms: | cavern, cavity, den, grotto, hollow, pothole, rock shelter, subterrane, subterranean area |
| Notes: | cavern is more vague and rhetorical than cave; a cavern is a large cave |
| Main Entry: | cavity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sunken or decayed area |
| Synonyms: | armpit, atrium, basin, chamber, crater, decay, dent, depression, gap, hole, hollow, pit, pocket, sinus, vacuity, void, bursa, caries, socket |
| Main Entry: | chasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, abyss |
| Synonyms: | alienation, arroyo, blank, breach, cavity, cleavage, cleft, crater, crevasse, fissure, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, omission, opening, oversight, ravine, rent, rift, schism, skip, split, void, yawn, abysm, clough, clove, preterition |
| Antonyms: | closure, junction, juncture |
| Main Entry: | concave |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | curved, depressed |
| Synonyms: | dipped, hollow, indented, round, rounded, sinking, sunken, biconcave, cupped, dented, dimpled, excavated, hollowed, incurvate, incurvated, incurved, sagging, scooped |
| Antonyms: | convex, distended |
| Main Entry: | dent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, scrape, chip |
| Synonyms: | cavity, crater, cut, dimple, dint, dip, furrow, hollow, impression, incision, indentation, nick, notch, pit, score, scratch, sink, trough, con-cavity, crenel, embrasure, scallop |
| Antonyms: | bulge |
| Main Entry: | dent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chip, scrape, depress |
| Synonyms: | dig, dimple, dint, furrow, gouge, hollow, imprint, indent, mark, nick, notch, perforate, pit, ridge, scratch, make concave, press in, push in |
| Antonyms: | bulge |
| Main Entry: | dimple |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indentation |
| Synonyms: | cleft, concavity, dent, depression, hollow, pit, divot |
| Main Entry: | excavate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dig up |
| Synonyms: | burrow, cut, delve, empty, gouge, grub, hollow, mine, quarry, scoop, scrape, shovel, spade, trench, tunnel, uncover, unearth |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | excavation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | site of digging; digging |
| Synonyms: | burrow, cavity, cut, cutting, dig, ditch, dugout, hole, hollow, mine, mining, pit, quarry, removal, shaft, trench, trough, blasting, disinterring, exhuming, scooping, shoveling, unearthing |
| Antonyms: | filling |
| Main Entry: | famished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving |
| Synonyms: | empty, hollow, hungry, ravenous, starved, voracious, could eat a horse, dog-hungry, flying light, having the munchies, hungering, ravening, starved to death |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied, sated, satiated |
| Main Entry: | furrow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ditch |
| Synonyms: | channel, corrugation, crease, crinkle, crow's-foot, dike, fluting, fold, groove, gutter, hollow, line, plica, rabbet, ridge, rimple, rivel, ruck, rut, seam, trench, wrinkle |
| Main Entry: | futile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless, pointless |
| Synonyms: | abortive, barren, bootless, delusive, empty, exhausted, forlorn, fruitless, hollow, idle, impracticable, impractical, in vain, ineffective, ineffectual, insufficient, no dice, nugatory, on a treadmill, otiose, out the window, profitless, resultless, save one's breath, sterile, to no avail, to no effect, to no purpose, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unneeded, unproductive, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfactory, unsubstantial, unsuccessful, useless, vain, valueless, worthless |
| Antonyms: | fruitful, hopeful, productive, profitable |
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