English Explanatory Dictionary

void

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
  2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
  3. Being without; destitute; devoid.
  4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
  5. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
  6. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
  7. Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
  8. Having no cards in a particular suit.
noun
  1. An empty space; a vacuum.
  2. An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
  3. A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
  4. A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
  5. An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
  6. A black cat.
  7. An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
  8. The lack of cards in a particular suit.
  9. A cavity or empty space caused by water erosion.
  10. An instance of urination.
verb
  1. To make invalid or worthless.
  2. Synonym of empty (verb).
  3. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
  4. To withdraw; to depart.
  5. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.
noun
  1. A voidee.

Pronunciation

/vɔɪd/ en-us-void.ogg

Word forms

void voids voiding voided

Etymology

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

Synonyms

vacant unfilled empty empty as a pauper's purse empty as the tomb on Easter clean leer toom vacuumlike vacuous void bereft of destitute of absent awanting deficient of deprived of devoid of lacking poor in robbed of shorn of stripped of void of wanting pointless useless bootless barren futile fruitless gainless idle inane ineffectual inefficacious inutile no good otiose profitless purposeless tired unavailing unprofitable unuseful unutilizable vain pore bubble nullify annul cancel evacuate

Antonyms

cloud

Derived words

legal void null and void trial of void void coefficient void deck postvoid
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