emptiness / ˈɛmp ti /

虚空空虚空旷虚无

emptiness4 个定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

emp·ti·er, emp·ti·est.

  1. containing nothing; having none of the usual or appropriate contents: an empty bottle.
  2. vacant; unoccupied: an empty house.
  3. without cargo or load: an empty wagon.
v. 有主动词 verb

emp·tied, emp·ty·ing.

  1. to make empty; deprive of contents; discharge the contents of: to empty a bucket.
  2. to discharge: to empty the water out of a bucket.
v. 无主动词 verb

emp·tied, emp·ty·ing.

  1. to become empty: The room emptied rapidly after the lecture.
  2. to discharge contents, as a river: The river empties into the sea.
n. 名词 noun

plural emp·ties.

  1. Informal. something that is empty, as a box, bottle, or can: Throw the empties into the waste bin.

emptiness 近义词

n. 名词 noun

void, bareness

emptiness构成的短语

  • empty calories
  • empty nest
  • empty suit
  • glass is half full (half empty)
  • running on empty

更多emptiness例句

  1. They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill.
  2. Netherland, published in 2008, attempted to capture a feeling of emptiness in the West after the catastrophic events of 9/11.
  3. When I contemplate God among the dead I find only emptiness and silence.
  4. Now I think that many are beginning to experience the rawness of the trauma, emptiness, and loss.
  5. “I walk around with an emptiness that no one or anything has been able to fill,” she wrote.
  6. It felt to him that he simply walked straight out of her life into a world of emptiness and ice and shadows.
  7. In the desolate emptiness of desert that yawned ahead, he saw this single tree that blossomed, and offered shade.
  8. All the election officials present check the complete emptiness of the box.
  9. Augustine, however, had been gifted by chance with a spirit lofty enough to feel the emptiness of such a life.
  10. What must be the horror, darkness and emptiness of those living substances that are "inferior" to us?