Definitions for empty

empty emp·ty

Spelling: [emp-tee]
IPA: /ˈɛmp ti/

Empty is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in empty (empty).

Definitions for empty

noun

  1. Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can:

adjective

  1. containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents:
  2. vacant; unoccupied:
  3. without cargo or load:
  4. destitute of people or human activity:
  5. destitute of some quality or qualities; devoid (usually followed by of):
  6. without force, effect, or significance; hollow; meaningless:
  7. not employed in useful activity or work; idle:
  8. Mathematics. (of a set) containing no elements; null; void.
  9. hungry:
  10. without knowledge or sense; frivolous; foolish:
  11. completely spent of emotion:

verb (used with object)

  1. to make empty; deprive of contents; discharge the contents of:
  2. to discharge (contents):

verb (used without object)

  1. to become empty:
  2. to discharge contents, as a river:

Origin of empty

before 900; Middle English (with intrusive -p-); Old English ǣmettig vacant (ǣmett(a) leisure (ǣ- a-3 + Germanic *mōtithō accommodation; cf. Examples for empty

On Thursday, Russian bloggers published pictures of empty shelves in stores that once sold electric goods.

Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.

He defied the atheism of communism and the empty religious practices of Putinism.

The JMG office that just a few days  ago received victims of human rights abuse is now empty,  covered in black  ash.

Man followed their example and searched until he found an empty grotto.

It was a large dry cellar, empty save for the old packing-case.

If they are in fact linked to North Korea, the threat may not be as empty as people think.

The roads are empty, the fields are deserted, the houses of entertainment are closed.

"As empty as an English squire, coz," cried the first speaker.

Although he ate little, the dining-room was empty when he finished.

Word Value for empty
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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