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empty 音標拼音: ['ɛmpti] ['ɛmti] vt. 清空,倒空,使變空 ;
n. 空的東西,空物
a. 空的,空虛的,空腹的,空洞的 清空,倒空,使變空 ;空的東西,空物空的,空虛的,空腹的,空洞的 empty缺乏 EMPempty空 empty adj 1: holding or containing nothing; " an empty glass"; " an empty room"; " full of empty seats"; " empty hours" [ ant: { full}] 2: devoid of significance or point; " empty promises"; " a hollow victory"; " vacuous comments" [ synonym: { empty}, { hollow}, { vacuous}] 3: needing nourishment; " after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; " empty- bellied children" [ synonym: { empty}, { empty- bellied}] 4: emptied of emotion; " after the violent argument he felt empty" n 1: a container that has been emptied; " return all empties to the store" v 1: make void or empty of contents; " Empty the box"; " The alarm emptied the building" [ ant: { fill}, { fill up}, { make full}] 2: become empty or void of its content; " The room emptied" [ synonym: { empty}, { discharge}] [ ant: { fill}, { fill up}] 3: leave behind empty; move out of; " You must vacate your office by tonight" [ synonym: { vacate}, { empty}, { abandon}] 4: remove; " Empty the water" 5: excrete or discharge from the body [ synonym: { evacuate}, { void}, { empty}] Empty \ Emp" ty\ (?; 215), a. [ Compar. { Emptier}; superl. { Emptiest}.] [ AS. emtig, [ ae] mtig, [ ae] metig, fr. [ ae] mta, [ ae] metta, quiet, leisure, rest; of uncertain origin; cf. G. emsig busy.] 1. Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, or a container, as a box, room, house, etc.; as, an empty chest, room, purse, or pitcher; an empty stomach; empty shackles. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Free; clear; devoid; -- often with of. " That fair female troop . . . empty of all good." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] I shall find you empty of that fault. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Having nothing to carry; unburdened. " An empty messenger." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] When ye go ye shall not go empty. -- Ex. iii. 21. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; as, empty words, or threats. [ 1913 Webster] Words are but empty thanks. -- Cibber. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Pleas' d in the silent shade with empty praise. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; as, an empty vine. [ 1913 Webster] Seven empty ears blasted with the east wind. -- Gen. xli. 27. [ 1913 Webster] 7. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb. [ 1913 Webster] That in civility thou seem' st so empty. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 8. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Empty is used as the first element in a compound; as, empty- handed, having nothing in the hands, destitute; empty- headed, having few ideas; empty- hearted, destitute of feeling. Syn: See { Vacant}. [ 1913 Webster]
Empty \ Emp" ty\, n.; pl. { Empties}. An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, " special rates for empties." [ 1913 Webster]
Empty \ Emp" ty\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Emptied}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Emptying}.] To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern. [ 1913 Webster] The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth. -- Eccl. xi. 3. [ 1913 Webster]
Empty \ Emp" ty\, v. i. 1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To become empty. " The chapel empties." -- B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster] 354 Moby Thesaurus words for " empty": abandoned, absurd, aimless, airy, apparently sound, arid, asinine, awkward, banal, bare, barren, baseless, blah, bland, blank, blankminded, bleached, bleed, bloodless, blow, blow out, bootless, broach, callow, calm, cast out, casuistic, catchpenny, characterless, cheap, clean, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, cold, colorable, colorless, counterproductive, dead, deadpan, decant, deceptive, defecate, deplete, depleted, deserted, designless, desolate, destitute, destitute of, devoid, devoid of, discharge, dishonest, disingenuous, dismal, dog- hungry, draft, draft off, draggy, drain, drain out, drained, draw, draw from, draw off, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dumb, dump, dusty, effete, eject, elephantine, eliminate, emptied, empty of, empty out, empty- headed, empty- minded, empty- pated, empty- skulled, etiolated, evacuate, exhaust, exhausted, expressionless, fade, fallacious, famished, famishing, fasting, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feckless, find vent, fishy, flat, flimsy, flow, flow out, foolish, forsaken, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fruitless, futile, garbled, gauche, glassy, godforsaken, green, groping, groundless, gush, gush out, half- famished, half- starved, heavy, ho- hum, hollow, hungering, hungry, hypocritical, idle, ignorant, ill- founded, illusive, impassive, importless, in want of, inadequate, inane, incogitant, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inexcitable, inexcusable, inexperienced, inexpressive, innocent, inoperative, insignificant, insincere, insipid, insubstantial, invalid, jejune, jesuitic, jet, know- nothing, leaden, let, let blood, let out, lifeless, light, low- spirited, mealymouthed, meaningless, milk, naive, nescient, new, nirvanic, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nugacious, nugatory, null, null and void, oblivious, of no force, otiose, outflow, outpour, overrefined, oversubtle, pale, pallid, paltry, passive, peckish, pedestrian, petty, phatic, philosophistic, phlebotomize, pinched with hunger, pipette, plausible, plodding, pointless, poker- faced, poky, ponderous, pour, pour out, pump, pump out, purge, purportless, purposeless, put out, quietistic, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, ravening, ravenous, raw, relaxed, remove, run out, sans, scatterbrained, scour out, scrambled, senseless, shallow, sharp- set, silly, simple, siphon off, slender, slight, slow, sluice out, solemn, sophistic, sophistical, specious, spent, spew out, spiritless, spout, spout out, spurt, stark, starved, starving, sterile, stiff, stodgy, strange to, stuffy, stupid, suck, suck out, superficial, superfluous, supernumerary, surge, surplus, sweep out, take away, take out, tap, tasteless, tedious, tentative, thoughtfree, thoughtless, throw out, tongue in cheek, tranquil, trifling, trite, trivial, unacquainted, unadorned, unapprized, unavailing, unbased, uncandid, unclog, uncomprehending, unconversant, undecorated, unenlightened, unexpressive, unfamiliar, unfilled, unfoul, unfounded, unfrank, ungrounded, unideaed, unilluminated, uninformed, uninhabitable, uninhabited, uninitiated, unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unlively, unload, unmeaning, unoccupied, unposted, unreasoning, unrelieved, unripe, unsatisfying, unserious, unsignificant, unsupportable, unsupported, unsure, unsustainable, unsustained, untenable, untenanted, unthinking, unused, unversed, unwarranted, useless, vacant, vacate, vacuous, vain, valueless, vapid, venesect, vent, void, vomit forth, voracious, wanting, waste, well, well out, white, wild, windy, with nothing inside, without, without basis, without content, without foundation, wolfish, wooden, worthless
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