void

Meanings

Adjective

• Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
• Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
• Being without; destitute; devoid.
• Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
• Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
• Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
• That does not return a value.

Noun

• An empty space; a vacuum.
• An extended region of space containing no galaxies
• A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
• A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
• An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
• A voidee.

Verb

• To make invalid or worthless.
• To empty.
• To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
• To withdraw, depart.
• To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

Related

Similar words

• pore
• bubble
• annul, cancel
• evacuate

Narrower meaning words

• Local Void

Origin

• From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from a Vulgar Latin *vocitus, related to Latin vacuus.
• Alteration of voidee.