word-vault/dist/data/cards/em/empty.json

A lightweight JavaScript package for English word definitions and collections.

{
    "term": "empty",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "with no people or things inside",
            "sensetop": "empty of something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an empty box/glass/bottle"
                },
                {
                    "text": "empty hands *(= not holding anything)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an empty plate *(= with no food on it)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I noticed an **empty space** on the bookshelf."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I couldn't see any **empty seats** *(= with nobody sitting in them)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The theatre was **half empty**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an empty house/room/bus"
                },
                {
                    "text": "As it got later, the streets became empty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house had been **standing empty** *(= without people living in it)* for some time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's not good to drink alcohol **on an empty stomach** *(= without having eaten something)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The room was empty of furniture.",
                    "contextForm": "empty of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The box lay empty on the bed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The city is letting useful housing stand empty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house felt curiously empty without the children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house had been left empty for several weeks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The reservoirs could end up empty if this dry weather continues."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a vast expanse of totally empty sky to look at."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were a few chairs, but the room was otherwise empty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a half-empty box of chocolates"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The streets were empty of people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "For the first time in years, the town square was empty of pigeons."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "quite"],
                "preposition": ["of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "with no meaning; not meaning what is said",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "empty words"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an **empty promise**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Voters will see through the empty rhetoric."
                },
                {
                    "text": "an empty gesture aimed at pleasing the crowds"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "hollow"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "unhappy because life does not seem to have a purpose, usually after something sad has happened",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Three months after his death, she still felt empty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My life seems empty without you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We all feel very empty now she's gone."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["appear", "be", "feel"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "quite"],
                "preposition": ["of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "without a quality that you would expect to be there",
            "sensetop": "empty of something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "words that were empty of meaning"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to refer to the attitude of somebody who always looks at the bad things in a situation rather than the good ones",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "For me the glass is half-empty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you start to look at things with a glass half-empty mentality, your problems soon pile up."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈempti/",
                "audio": "em/empty/empty__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈempti/",
                "audio": "em/empty/empty__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English ǣmtig, ǣmetig ‘at leisure, empty’, from ǣmetta ‘leisure’, perhaps from ā ‘no, not’ + mōt ‘meeting’ (see moot)."
}