Hollow

Quick meaning: Hollow is a noun meaning (geography) A small valley between mountains.

Meaning

(geography) A small valley between mountains.

More Meanings

1. A sunken area on a surface.
2. An unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
3. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
4. (transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate
5. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
6. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
7. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

Example Sentences

a hollow in a tree trunk

a hollow in the pit of one’s stomach

He held the chick in the hollow of his hand.

He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.

Word Forms

• hollows
• holler
• hollowing
• hollowed
• hollower
• hollowest

Synonyms for hollow

Depending on context, synonyms include depression, empty, vacuous, insincere, reverberant, hole.

Antonyms for hollow

Common opposites include solid.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sunken, cavernous, dig, hole, excavate, cannular.

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