hollow
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hollow/ˈhɒləʊ/
▶adjective
- 1 having a hole or empty space inside.
■ concave.
- 2 (of a sound) echoing.
- 3 without real value: the result was a hollow victory.
■ insincere: a hollow promise.
- 1 a hole or depression.
- 2 a small valley.
■ make hollow.
– phrases
beat someone hollow defeat someone thoroughly.
beat someone hollow defeat someone thoroughly.
– derivatives
hollowly adverb,
hollowness noun.
hollowly adverb,
hollowness noun.
'hollow' also found in these Oxford entries:
amniocentesis
- armpit
- balafon
- ball
- bamboo
- bauble
- bell
- bladder
- blastula
- bore
- box girder
- bulb
- bunker
- calamus
- cane
- cannon
- casement
- cave
- cavern
- cavity
- chaplet
- chasm
- chimenea
- cire perdue
- cirque
- claves
- claypan
- cleft
- coelacanth
- coelenterate
- coelurosaur
- combe
- concave
- core
- cork
- corrie
- croze
- culm
- cypsela
- cyst
- dent
- depression
- dilatation
- dint
- doline
- electro-acoustic
- embay
- epithelium
- excavate
- feather
