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Word: hollow (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • figuratively Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
  • figuratively Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
  • (of a sound) Distant, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
  • (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

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Noun:

  • A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies"
  • A sunken area in something solid.
  • figuratively A feeling of emptiness.
  • (US) A sunken area, the equivalent to a copse in British English.

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Verb:

  • to make a hole in something; to excavate transitive

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