Word Meaning

hollow definition and meaning

a. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
a. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
a. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
a. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
n. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
n. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
v. t. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
adv. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
interj. Hollo.
v. i. To shout; to hollo.
v. t. To urge or call by shouting.

Crossword clues for hollow

- Empty
- Empty inside
- Not solid
- Vaucous
- Wholehearted, depressed and insincere
- With an empty space inside