void
/vɔɪd/ adjective, noun, verb
Forms voids voiding voided
- adjective Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled. “Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.”
- adjective Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- adjective (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- adjective Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- adjective Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- adjective Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- adjective (programming) Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- adjective (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
- noun An empty space; a vacuum. “Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.”
- noun (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- noun (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- noun (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- noun (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- noun (Internet slang, humorous, endearing) A black cat. “My little void is so sweet sometimes.”
- noun An empty place; a location that has nothing useful.
- noun (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.
- verb (transitive) To make invalid or worthless. “He voided the check and returned it.”
- verb (transitive, medicine) Synonym of empty (verb). “void one’s bladder”
- verb To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge. “to void excrement”
- verb (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw; to depart.
Synonyms
vacant unfilled empty empty as a pauper's purse empty as the tomb on Easter clean leer toom vacuumlike vacuous bereft of destitute of absent awanting deficient of deprived of devoid of lacking poor in robbed of nothingness nullity nihility vacancy emptiness vacuum invalidate annul quash avoid
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.
Alteration of voidee.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
- adjective Having no incumbent; unoccupied; --said of offices and the like.
- noun An empty space; a vacuum.
- verb To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
Etymology [OE. voide, OF. voit, voide, vuit, vuide, F. vide, fr. (assumed) LL. vocitus, fr. L. vocare, an old form of vacare to be empty, or a kindred word. Cf. Vacant, Avoid.]
Etymology [OF. voidier, vuidier. See Void, a.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “void”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details