hollowness
空洞性,空洞,凹陷性,空虚
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Definitions
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hol·low·er, hol·low·est.
- : having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- : having a depression or concavity: a hollow surface.
- : sunken, as the cheeks or eyes.
- : not resonant; dull, muffled, or deep: a hollow voice.
- : without real or significant worth; meaningless: a hollow victory.
- : insincere or false: hollow compliments.
- : hungry; having an empty feeling: I feel absolutely hollow, so let's eat.
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- : an empty space within anything; a hole, depression, or cavity.
- : a valley: They took the sheep to graze in the hollow.
- : Foundry. a concavity connecting two surfaces otherwise intersecting at an obtuse angle.
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- : to make hollow: to hollow out a log.
- : to form by making something hollow: to hollow a place in the sand; boats hollowed out of logs.
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- : to become hollow.
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- : in a hollow manner: The politician's accusations rang hollow.
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Examples
This is silence in the face of presidential attacks on the constitutional order — a silence that rings out across the prairies and down the hollows as approval and permission.
Some air also moves into the gadget’s hollow walls, eliminating cold spots.
And, because the supports are hollow, wiring for accessories like solar panels can live inside where they’re protected from the elements.
Despite the relatively hollow structure, the Supersport-35 still weighs about the same as a typical blade putter.
The hollow hairs are made of silica, the same substance in glass.
But the closing of one school after another exposes the hollowness of those promises.
My voice sounded cheerful and supportive, properly concealing the hollowness I felt.
In his voluble, guns-blazing manner, Adrover made the hollowness of New York Fashion Week, which ends Thursday, apparent.
We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.
There were no tears in his eyes, but a feeling of hollowness about his heart, and a great pain.
They gave off a muffled clink of hollowness when he tapped them.
Then she rapped the floor and walls, and could discover no indications of hollowness.
Had his best days of happiness been, then, nothing but hollowness and self-deception?
We used especially to open our minds, la Mandeville, on the hollowness of human virtue.