empty

Meanings

Adjective

• Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
• Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
• Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
• Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
• Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
• Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
• Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
• Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
• Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
• Producing nothing; unfruitful.

Verb

• To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
• Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

Noun

• A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.

Related

Opposite words

• fill

Origin

• From Middle English emty, amty, from Old English ǣmtiġ, ǣmettiġ, from Proto-Germanic *uz- + Proto-Germanic *mōtijô, *mōtô, *mōtiþô, from Proto-Indo-European *med-. Related to ġeǣmtiġian, ǣmetta, mōtan. More at mote, meet.
• The interconsonantal excrescent p is a euphonic insertion dating from Middle English.