hollow

hollow is a 6-letter English word with 19 senses as adjective, noun, transitive verb, adverb, interjection, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
2. adjective. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
3. adjective. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
4. adjective. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
5. noun. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
6. noun. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
7. transitive verb. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
8. adverb. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
9. interjection. Hollo.
10. intransitive verb. To shout; to hollo.
11. transitive verb. To urge or call by shouting.
12. noun. a depression hollowed out of solid matter

    Synonyms: hole

13. noun. a small valley between mountains

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

    Synonyms: holler

14. noun. a cavity or space in something

    "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

15. verb. remove the interior of

    "hollow out a tree trunk"

16. verb. remove the inner part or the core of

    "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"

    Synonyms: dig, excavate

17. adjective. devoid of significance or point

    "empty promises"

    "a hollow victory"

    Synonyms: empty, vacuous

18. adjective. as if echoing in a hollow space

    "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"

19. adjective. not solid; having a space or gap or cavity

    "a hollow wall"

    "a hollow tree"

Synonyms

hole, holler, dig, excavate, empty, vacuous

Common word forms

hollows, hollowed, hollower, hollowly, hollowest, hollowing, hollowness

Words from these letters

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