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Synonyms for hollow
ˈhɒl oʊhol·low

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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. hollow

    Antonyms:
    full, solid, well-stored, strong, firm, sincere, true, genuine, substantial, sound

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hollownoun

    a cavity or space in something

    "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

    Synonyms:
    hole, holler

    Antonyms:
    unreverberant, solid, nonresonant, massive, meaningful

  2. hollow, hollernoun

    a small valley between mountains

    "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"

    Synonyms:
    roaring, bellow, holloa, hole, holler, yowl, hollering, holla, hollo, bellowing, roar

    Antonyms:
    massive, unreverberant, nonresonant, solid, meaningful

  3. hole, hollowadjective

    a depression hollowed out of solid matter

    Synonyms:
    maw, trap, golf hole, cakehole, jam, muddle, holler, yap, pickle, gob, hole, fix, kettle of fish, mess

    Antonyms:
    meaningful, solid, unreverberant, nonresonant, massive

  4. hollowadjective

    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"

    Synonyms:
    vacuous, empty

    Antonyms:
    nonresonant, unreverberant, meaningful, solid, massive

  5. hollowadjective

    as if echoing in a hollow space

    "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"

    Synonyms:
    vacuous, empty

    Antonyms:
    nonresonant, meaningful, massive, solid, unreverberant

  6. empty, hollow, vacuousverb

    devoid of significance or point

    "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"

    Synonyms:
    vacuous, fatuous, empty, mindless, asinine, empty-bellied, blank, inane

    Antonyms:
    nonresonant, massive, unreverberant, solid, meaningful

  7. excavate, dig, hollowverb

    remove the inner part or the core of

    "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

    Synonyms:
    stab, dig, cut into, prod, grind, travail, core out, turn over, jab, delve, labour, savvy, excavate, comprehend, compass, poke, apprehend, get the picture, grok, unearth, turn up, labor, dig out, grasp, hollow out, drudge, moil, toil, dig up

    Antonyms:
    nonresonant, massive, solid, unreverberant, meaningful

  8. hollow, hollow out, core outverb

    remove the interior of

    "hollow out a tree trunk"

    Synonyms:
    excavate, dig, core out, hollow out

    Antonyms:
    unreverberant, nonresonant, solid, massive, meaningful

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hollowadjective

    Synonyms:
    vacant, empty, void, cavernous, not solid

  2. hollowadjective

    Synonyms:
    insincere, treacherous, false, faithless, hypocritical, pharisaical, deceitful, false-hearted, hollow-hearted

  3. hollowadjective

    Synonyms:
    deep, low, rumbling

  4. hollownoun

    Synonyms:
    depression, low spot, low place

  5. hollownoun

    Synonyms:
    cavity, concavity, depression, excavation, hole, cave, cavern, dent, dint, dimple, pit

  6. hollownoun

    Synonyms:
    groove, channel, canal

  7. hollowverb

    Synonyms:
    excavate, scoop

  8. hollowadjective

    Synonyms:
    [Low.] wholly, completely, utterly

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words4.0 / 1 vote

  1. hollowadjective

    Synonyms:
    excavated, cavernous, vacant, void, unfilled, empty, cannulated, concave, depressed, gaunt, sunken, insincere, unsound, false, hypocritical

    Antonyms:
    convex, protuberant, sincere

  2. hollownoun

    Synonyms:
    depression, cavity, valley, concavity, channel, groove, concave, recess, correi

  3. hollowverb

    Synonyms:
    scoop, excavate, concave

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "hollow":

    empty, trough, peckish

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How to use hollow in a sentence?

  1. Heidi Kujawa:

    We've modeled our ByBlocks around the dimensions of a hollow cement block. Each is a 16 inch by 8 inch by 8 inch unit.

  2. Dmitri Trenin:

    Fresh attempts to expose Russian ‘red line’ deterrence as hollow – whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea – would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect, this would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario.

  3. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

    When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?

  4. Letitia Elizabeth Landon:

    Who, in after life, can help smiling at the fancies in which early anticipation revelled ; how absurd, how impossible, do they not now appear! Yet, in such mockery lurks much of bitterness : the laugh rings hollow from many a disappointment, and many a mortification.

  5. Social Democrat Peter Bartels:

    We cannot allow ourselves any hollow structures given the actual security situation.


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