Dictionary entry details
• HOLLOW (noun)
Meaning:
A cavity or space in something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Context example:
hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks
Hypernyms ("hollow" is a kind of...):
cavity; enclosed space (space that is surrounded by something)
Meaning:
A small valley between mountains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
holler; hollow
Context example:
he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians
Hypernyms ("hollow" is a kind of...):
vale; valley (a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hollow"):
dell; dingle (a small wooded hollow)
Meaning:
A depression hollowed out of solid matter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
hollow; hole
Hypernyms ("hollow" is a kind of...):
depression; natural depression (a sunken or depressed geological formation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hollow"):
burrow; tunnel (a hole in the ground made by an animal for shelter)
wormhole (hole made by a burrowing worm)
rabbit burrow; rabbit hole (a hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits)
chuckhole; pothole (a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface))
cavity; pit (a sizeable hole (usually in the ground))
kettle; kettle hole ((geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits)
gopher hole (a hole in the ground made by gophers)
• HOLLOW (adjective)
Meaning:
Not solid; having a space or gap or cavity
Context examples:
a hollow wall / a hollow tree / hollow cheeks / his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year
Similar:
cavernous (being or suggesting a cavern)
deep-set; recessed; sunken (having a sunken area)
empty (having nothing inside)
fistular; fistulate; fistulous (hollow and tube-shaped like a reed)
cannular; tube-shaped; tubelike; tubular; vasiform (constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids))
Attribute:
solidity (state of having the interior filled with matter)
Antonym:
solid (entirely of one substance with no holes inside)
Meaning:
Deliberately deceptive
Synonyms:
hollow; false
Context examples:
hollow (or false) promises / false pretenses
Similar:
insincere (lacking sincerity)
Meaning:
As if echoing in a hollow space
Context example:
the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom
Similar:
reverberant; ringing (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)
Meaning:
Devoid of significance or point
Synonyms:
empty; vacuous; hollow
Context examples:
empty promises / a hollow victory / vacuous comments
Similar:
meaningless; nonmeaningful (having no meaning or direction or purpose)
• HOLLOW (verb)
Meaning:
Remove the inner part or the core of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
hollow; excavate; dig
Context example:
the mining company wants to excavate the hillside
Hypernyms (to "hollow" is one way to...):
remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hollow"):
drive (excavate horizontally)
ditch; trench (cut a trench in, as for drainage)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Remove the interior of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
core out; hollow out; hollow
Context example:
hollow out a tree trunk
Hypernyms (to "hollow" is one way to...):
empty (make void or empty of contents)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hollow"):
core (remove the core or center from)
excavate (form by hollowing)
dig; dig out (create by digging)
cave; undermine (hollow out as if making a cave or opening)
cavern; cavern out (hollow out as if making a cavern)
scoop out (hollow out with a scoop)
draw in; suck in (draw in as if by suction)
hole (make holes in)
scallop; scollop (form scallops in)
gouge; rout (make a groove in)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They hollow the trees
