Empty
Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles.
Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of.
Having nothing to carry; unburdened.
Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats.
Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.
Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine.
Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb.
Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."
To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
To become empty.
Related Definitions:
An,
Anything,
Appropriate,
As,
Become,
Box,
Carry,
Cask,
Chest,
Cistern,
Clear,
Commerce,
Containing,
Contents,
Courtesy,
Coxcomb,
Crate,
Deprive,
Destitute,
Devoid,
Discharge,
Effect,
Empties,
Empty,
Exhaust,
Existence,
Filled,
For,
Free,
Freight,
Having,
Holding,
Hollow,
House,
In,
Inclosure,
Into,
Itself,
Knowledge,
Lacking,
Language,
Make,
Not,
Nothing,
Ocean,
Of,
Often,
Or,
Out,
Pitcher,
Plant,
Pleasure,
Pour,
Producing,
Purse,
Real,
Reality,
River,
Room,
Said,
Satisfy,
Sense,
Sincerity,
Special,
Stomach,
The,
To,
Transportation,
Tree,
Unable,
Unfruitful,
Unsubstantial,
Used,
Vacant,
Vain,
Vessel,
Vine,
Void,
Well,
With,
Within,
World
Empty Quotations
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
Ernest Hemingway
And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
Barack Obama
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
Saint Augustine
Empty Translations
empty in Afrikaans is pap
empty in Dutch is hol, ledig, lens, loos, leeg
empty in French is videz, vident, vidanger, vider, vidons, vide
empty in German is ausleeren
empty in Italian is vuotare, vuoto, evacuare
empty in Latin is inanis, vacuus
empty in Norwegian is tom
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
