hollowadjective
uk/ˈhɒl.əʊ/us/ˈhɑː.loʊ/hollow adjective (EMPTY)
C2 having a hole or empty space inside:
If you have hollow cheeks or eyes, your cheeks curve in or your eyes look deep in your head because you are old, tired, or ill.
More examples
- The hollow glass tank contains hot mercury vapour.
- The hollow chocolate egg held a diamond ring.
- If you tap on the wall, you can hear it is hollow behind.
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Empty
- bare
- barren
- blank
- clear
- dead
- deserted
- desolate
- desolation
- emptiness
- empty
- flat
- lifeless
- nothingness
- unfurnished
- uninhabited
- unoccupied
- vacant
- vacuum
- void
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hollow adjective (NOT SINCERE)
C2 (of situations, feelings, or words) without value, or not true or sincere:
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Affected & insincere
- affectation
- affected
- artificial
- artsy-fartsy
- arty-farty
- cheesy
- fey
- forced
- glib
- histrionic
- histrionics
- hollowly
- meretricious
- pious
- preciously
- precocious
- pretension
- pretentious
- pseud
- slick
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hollow adjective (SOUND)
(of sound) as if made by hitting an empty container:
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Describing qualities of sound
- (as) clear as a bell idiom
- background
- bass 1
- brassy
- consonance
- crackle
- creaky
- depth
- distortion
- easy
- grating
- harmonious
- low-pitched
- pitched
- plaintive
- pure
- sonorous
- squeaky
- squelch
- tune
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Idiom(s)
hollownoun [ C ]
uk/ˈhɒl.əʊ/us/ˈhɑː.loʊ/a hole or empty space in something, or a low area in a surface:
US a valley:
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Holes, hollows and dips
- aperture
- cleft
- cranny
- dent
- depression
- dint
- dip
- donga
- eyehole
- intake
- orifice
- perforation
- pinhole
- pit
- porosity
- porous
- puncture
- riddled
- tear 1
- wormhole
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