'Hollow' definitions:
Definition of 'hollow'
From: WordNet
adjective
Not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year" [ant: solid]
adjective
As if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"
adjective
Devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: empty, hollow, vacuous]
noun
A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"
noun
A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians" [syn: hollow, holler]
noun
A depression hollowed out of solid matter [syn: hole, hollow]
verb
Remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" [syn: excavate, dig, hollow]
verb
Remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" [syn: hollow, hollow out, core out]
Definition of 'Hollow'
From: GCIDE
- Hollow \Hol"low\, a. [OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow, hole. Cf. Hole.]
- 1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. [1913 Webster]
- Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. --Ex. xxvii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. [1913 Webster]
- With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Hollow newel (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a staircase.
- Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates.
- Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel.
- Hollow square. See Square.
- Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.
- Syn: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hollow'
From: GCIDE
- Hollow \Hol"low\, v. i. To shout; to hollo. [1913 Webster]
- Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hollow'
From: GCIDE
- Hollow \Hol"low\, v. t. To urge or call by shouting. [1913 Webster]
- He has hollowed the hounds. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hollow'
From: GCIDE
- Hollow \Hol"low\, n.
- 1. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. [1913 Webster]
- Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Hollow'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Hollow'
From: GCIDE
- Hollow \Hol"low\, adv. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hollow'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurd,
- abysm,
- abyss,
- alveolation,
- alveolus,
- antrum,
- aperture,
- apparently sound,
- arid,
- armpit,
- artificial,
- bare,
- baritone,
- barren,
- basin,
- bass,
- blah,
- bland,
- blank,
- bleached,
- bloodless,
- boat-shaped,
- boatlike,
- booth,
- bootless,
- bowl,
- bowl-shaped,
- bowllike,
- box,
- broaching,
- casuistic,
- cave,
- cave in,
- cavelike,
- cavern,
- cavernous,
- cavity,
- cell,
- cellule,
- chamber,
- characterless,
- chasm,
- check,
- clear,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- cold,
- colorable,
- colorless,
- compartment,
- concave,
- concaved,
- concavity,
- contralto,
- costly,
- counterfeit,
- crack,
- crater,
- craterlike,
- crevasse,
- crib,
- crypt,
- cup,
- cup-shaped,
- cupped,
- cymbiform,
- cynical,
- dale,
- dead,
- deceitful,
- deceptive,
- deep,
- deep-echoing,
- deep-pitched,
- deep-toned,
- deepmouthed,
- dell,
- dent,
- dented,
- depressed,
- depression,
- depth,
- devoid,
- dig out,
- dig up,
- dip,
- disclosure,
- dish,
- dish-shaped,
- dished,
- dishing,
- dishlike,
- dishonest,
- disingenuous,
- dismal,
- draggy,
- drearisome,
- dreary,
- dredge,
- dry,
- dryasdust,
- dull,
- dusty,
- effete,
- elephantine,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- empty-minded,
- empty-pated,
- empty-skulled,
- enclosed space,
- etiolated,
- excavate,
- excavation,
- fade,
- fallacious,
- false,
- famished,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featureless,
- feigned,
- fenestra,
- fistula,
- flat,
- fold,
- follicle,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- fraudulent,
- fruitless,
- funnel chest,
- funnel-breasted,
- funnel-chested,
- funnel-shaped,
- furrow,
- futile,
- gap,
- gape,
- gat,
- glen,
- gouge,
- grave,
- gulf,
- heavy,
- hiatus,
- ho-hum,
- hold,
- hole,
- hollow out,
- hollow shell,
- hollowed,
- hungry,
- hypocritical,
- idle,
- illusive,
- impression,
- inane,
- incurve,
- incurved,
- incurving,
- incurvous,
- indentation,
- indented,
- ineffective,
- inexcitable,
- infundibular,
- infundibuliform,
- inlet,
- insincere,
- insipid,
- interval,
- jejune,
- jesuitic,
- lacuna,
- laying open,
- leaden,
- leak,
- lifeless,
- low,
- low-pitched,
- low-spirited,
- manger,
- mealymouthed,
- meaningless,
- mendacious,
- muffled,
- navicular,
- naviform,
- null,
- null and void,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- otiose,
- outlet,
- overrefined,
- oversubtle,
- pale,
- pallid,
- passageway,
- pedestrian,
- pew,
- philosophistic,
- pit,
- plausible,
- plodding,
- pocket,
- pointless,
- poky,
- ponderous,
- pore,
- profitless,
- punch bowl,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- ravenous,
- retire,
- retiring,
- retreat,
- retreating,
- reverberant,
- sag,
- saucer-shaped,
- scaphoid,
- scatterbrained,
- scoop,
- scyphate,
- senseless,
- sepulchral,
- shaft,
- sham,
- shell,
- sink,
- sinkage,
- sinkhole,
- sinus,
- slot,
- slow,
- socket,
- solemn,
- sophistic,
- sophistical,
- space,
- specious,
- spiritless,
- split,
- spoonlike,
- spurious,
- stall,
- starved,
- sterile,
- stiff,
- stodgy,
- stoma,
- stuffy,
- sunk,
- sunken,
- superficial,
- tasteless,
- tedious,
- throwing open,
- toneless,
- tongue in cheek,
- trough,
- unavailing,
- uncandid,
- uncorking,
- unfilled,
- unfrank,
- unlively,
- unprofitable,
- unrelieved,
- unserious,
- unstopping,
- vacant,
- vacuity,
- vacuous,
- vain,
- valley,
- valueless,
- vapid,
- vault,
- void,
- vug,
- well,
- white,
- with nothing inside,
- without content,
- wooden,
- worthless,
- yawn,
- yawning abyss
Words containing 'Hollow'
- Hollowed,
- Hollowing,
- Hollowness,
- hollow out,
- Baiting Hollow,
- Bull Hollow,
- Hollow Creek,
- Hollow Rock,
- Hollow newel,
- Hollow quoin,
- Hollow root,
- Hollow square,
- Hollow ware,
- Hunters Hollow,
- Laurel Hollow,
- Pine Hollow,
- Pine Hollow, OR,
- Sandy Hollow,
- Shady Hollow,
- Sleepy Hollow,
- hollow eyed,
- hollow man,
- Baiting Hollow, NY,
- Bull Hollow, OK,
- Hollow Creek, KY,
- Hollow Rock, TN,
- Hollow-hearted,
- Hollow-horned,
- Hunters Hollow, KY,
- Laurel Hollow, NY,
- Sandy Hollow, TX,
- Shady Hollow, TX,
- Sleepy Hollow, IL,
- Sleepy Hollow, NY,
- Sleepy Hollow, WY,
- hollow-back,
- hollow-eyed,
- Preston-Potter Hollow,
- Sandy Hollow-Escondidas,
- hollow-nosed bullets,
- hollow-point bullets,
- Preston-Potter Hollow, NY,
- Sandy Hollow-Escondidas, TX