| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty, hollowed out |
Synonyms: |
alveolate, arched, carved out, cavernous, cleft, concave, cup-shaped, cupped, curved, deep-set, depressed, dimpled, excavated, incurved, indented, infundibular, not solid, notched, pitted, striated, sunken, troughlike, unfilled, vacant, vaulted, void |
Antonyms: |
convex, full, raised, solid |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep, resonant in sound |
Synonyms: |
cavernous, clangorous, dull, echoing, flat, ghostly, low, muffled, mute, muted, resounding, reverberant, ringing, roaring, rumbling, sepulchral, sounding, thunderous, toneless, vibrant, 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: | 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, sinkage, sinkhole, socket, trough, vacuity, valley, void |
Antonyms: |
solid |
| Main Entry: | hollow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | empty out; make concave |
Synonyms: |
channel, chase, corrugate, dent, dig, dish, ditch, excavate, furrow, gorge, groove, indent, notch, pit, rabbet, remove, rut, scoop, shovel, trench |
Antonyms: |
fill, make convex, raise |
| Main Entry: | absent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deficient in something needed or usual |
Synonyms: |
bare, blank, devoid, empty, hollow, lacking, minus, missing, nonexistent, omitted, unavailable, vacant, vacuous, wanting |
Antonyms: |
sufficient |
| Main Entry: | affected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changed in a bad or artificial way |
Synonyms: |
apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
Antonyms: |
ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured |
| Main Entry: | artificial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended; affected |
Synonyms: |
assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, put-on, spurious, theatrical, unnatural |
Antonyms: |
genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious |
| 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, sinkage, sinkhole, tub, valley, vessel, washbasin, washbowl, watershed |