–adjective

1.

containing nothing an empty bottle.

2.

vacant: an empty house.

3.

without cargo or load: an empty wagon.

4.

destitute of people or human activity: I walked along the empty street.

5.

destitute of quality or qualities: Mine is a life now empty.

(oft used in dramatic text or script)

6.

without force, or significance; hollow; meaningless: empty smiles;

empty pleasures.

7.

no useful activity or work; idle: empty summer afternoons.

8.

Mathematics. (of a set)

containing no elements; null; void.

10.

without knowledge or sense; foolish: an empty head.

11.

completely spent of emotion: The experience left an empty heart.

–verb (used with object)

12.

to make empty; deprive of (perhaps ill) contents

13.

to unburden (contents)

–verb (used without object)

14.

to become empty

15.

to discharge contents, as a river.

–noun

9.

hungry: I'm feeling rather empty—let's have lunch