hollow
hollow is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 10 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak.
- 2.Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. Dryden.
- 3.Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. Milton. Hollow newel (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a staircase. -- Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates. -- Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel. -- Hollow square. See Square. -- Hollow ware, hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc. Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous.
- 4.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.
- 5.A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. Prior. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson.
- 6.To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. "Trees rudely hollowed." Dryden.
- 7.Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Collog.] The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. Darwin.
- 8.Hollo.
- 9.To shout; to hollo. Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. Fuller.
- 10.To urge or call by shouting. He has hollowed the hounds. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absence
- abysmal
- and
- ankle
- aphonia
- aphonous
- aphony
- arrear
- bated
- bathometer
- bathymetry
- benthal
- beyond
- bottomless
- break
- breath
- breathless
- broken
- caret
- cast
- cavernous
- childish
- complete
- compressibility
- compressible
- concavity
- cracked
- crater
- crude
- cut
- deaf
- deep
- deepen
- deepness
- defalcation
- default
- defect
- defective
- deficiency
- deficient
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is hollow.
- What is depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak called?
- What is reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. Dryden called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is a low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. Prior. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson called?
- What is to make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. "Trees rudely hollowed." Dryden called?
- What is to shout; to hollo. Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. Fuller called?
- What is to urge or call by shouting. He has hollowed the hounds. Sir W. Scott called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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