hollow
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Is hollow a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (geography) A small valley between mountains.Examples: "He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies."; "c. 1710–20, Matthew Prior, The First Hymn Of Callimachus: To Jupiter Forests grew upon the barren hollows."; "This road leads through a sandy hollow shaded by trees for about a quarter of a mile, where it crosses the bridge famous in goblin story, and just beyond swells the green knoll on which stands the whitewashed church."
2. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.Examples: "a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach"figuratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavatetransitive
adj (English)
1. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.Examples: "a hollow tree; a hollow sphere"
2. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.Examples: "He let out a hollow moan."; "Through thy battlements, Newstead, the hollow winds whistle:"
3. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.Examples: "a hollow victory"figuratively
4. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.Examples: "a hollow promise"figuratively
5. (gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position
6. (oenology) Synonym of empty (“lacking between the onset of tasting and the finish”).Examples: "While most 1974s remain hard, tannic, hollow wines lacking ripeness, flesh, and character, a number of the Graves estates did produce surprisingly spicy, interesting wines."Synonyms: empty
adv (English)
1. (colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.colloquialnot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary