Hollow

Adjective

 * 1) (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
 * 2) (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
 * a hollow moan
 * 1)  Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
 * a hollow victory
 * 1)  Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
 * a hollow promise

Derived terms

 * hollow leg

Noun

 * 1) A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies"
 * 2) A sunken area in something solid.
 * 3) (US) A sunken area, the equivalent to a copse in British English.
 * 4)  A feeling of emptiness.

Verb

 * 1) to make a hole in something; to excavate

Verbs for Hollow
bellow through—; blow through—; bore—; depress—; enclose—; excavate—; fashion—; occupy—; rest in—; shape—; shelter in—; sink into—; thrust into—; —interposes.

Thesaurus
absurd, abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aperture, apparently sound, arid, armpit, artificial, bare, baritone, barren, basin, bass, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bloodless, boat-shaped, boatlike, booth, bootless, bowl, bowl-shaped, bowllike, box, broaching, casuistic, cave, cave in, cavelike, cavern, cavernous, cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, characterless, chasm, check, clear, clearing, cleft, cold, colorable, colorless, compartment, concave, concaved, concavity, contralto, costly, counterfeit, crack, crater, craterlike, crevasse, crib, crypt, cup, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, cynical, dale, dead, deceitful, deceptive, deep, deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, dell, dent, dented, depressed, depression, depth, devoid, dig out, dig up, dip, disclosure, dish, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, dishonest, disingenuous, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dredge, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, enclosed space, etiolated, excavate, excavation, fade, fallacious, false, famished, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feigned, fenestra, fistula, flat, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen, fraudulent, fruitless, funnel chest, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, furrow, futile, gap, gape, gat, glen, gouge, grave, gulf, heavy, hiatus, ho-hum, hold, hole, hollow out, hollow shell, hollowed, hungry, hypocritical, idle, illusive, impression, inane, incurve, incurved, incurving, incurvous, indentation, indented, ineffective, inexcitable, infundibular, infundibuliform, inlet, insincere, insipid, interval, jejune, jesuitic, lacuna, laying open, leaden, leak, lifeless, low, low-pitched, low-spirited, manger, mealymouthed, meaningless, mendacious, muffled, navicular, naviform, null, null and void, opening, opening up, orifice, otiose, outlet, overrefined, oversubtle, pale, pallid, passageway, pedestrian, pew, philosophistic, pit, plausible, plodding, pocket, pointless, poky, ponderous, pore, profitless, punch bowl, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, ravenous, retire, retiring, retreat, retreating, reverberant, sag, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scatterbrained, scoop, scyphate, senseless, sepulchral, shaft, sham, shell, sink, sinkage, sinkhole, sinus, slot, slow, socket, solemn, sophistic, sophistical, space, specious, spiritless, split, spoonlike, spurious, stall, starved, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stoma, stuffy, sunk, sunken, superficial, tasteless, tedious, throwing open, toneless, tongue in cheek, trough, unavailing, uncandid, uncorking, unfilled, unfrank, unlively, unprofitable, unrelieved, unserious, unstopping, vacant, vacuity, vacuous, vain, valley, valueless, vapid, vault, void, vug, well, white, with nothing inside, without content, wooden, worthless, yawn, yawning abyss

Etymology 1
holw:, holh:, from hol:, from  (compare Dutch hol, German hohl:,  hul:), from  (compare  thellë:,  κοῖλος:',  sūra:,  undefined:), from *k̑óuhₓ- 'cavity'. More at cave.

Etymology 2
holow:, earlier holgh:, from holh:', from hol:. See above.

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hindi: (khokhlā)
 * Italian: incavo
 * Japanese: くぼんだ (kubonda)
 * Latvian: tukšs
 * Lithuanian: tuščias, tuščiaviduris


 * Mapudungun:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hul, innhul
 * Nynorsk: hol, innhol
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: полый, полая
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: hueco, ahuecado , hundido
 * Swedish: ihålig
 * Telugu: బోలు (bOlu), డొల్ల (Dolla)
 * Urdu: (khokhlā)


 * Japanese: こもった (komotta)
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: dyp, hul
 * Nynorsk: djup, hol


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Japanese: 空虚な (kūkyo-na), 不誠実な (fuseijitsu-na)
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hul
 * Nynorsk: hol


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ihålig
 * Telugu: శుష్క (Sushka), డొల్ల (Dolla)

Noun

 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 窪地 (kubo-chi)
 * Latvian: dobums
 * Lithuanian: įduba, duobė, dauba
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hull, grop
 * Nynorsk: hòl, grop


 * Scottish Gaelic: sloc
 * Spanish: depresión, hondonada
 * Swedish: grop


 * Afar:
 * Japanese: むなしい (munasī), 虚脱感 (kyodatsukan)


 * Spanish: ,