hollow
- Adjective. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
- Adjective. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
- Adjective. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
- Adjective. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
- Noun. A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies".
- Noun. A sunken area in something solid.
- Noun. (US) A sunken area, the equivalent to a copse in British English.
- Noun. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
- Noun. The New Zealand enunciation of hello.
- Verb. to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive) .
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