devoid

4 definitions found

devoid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Devoid \De*void"\, v. t. [OE. devoiden to leave, OF. desvuidier,
     desvoidier, to empty out. See Void.]
     To empty out; to remove.
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  Devoid \De*void"\, a. [See Devoid, v. t.]
     1. Void; empty; vacant. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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     2. Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of
        sense; devoid of pity or of pride.
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devoid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  devoid
      adj 1: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of
             insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience";
             "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of
             meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free,
             innocent]

devoid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "devoid":
     bankrupt in, bare, bare of, barren, bereft of, bland, blank,
     bleached, characterless, clear, deficient, denuded of, deprived of,
     destitute, destitute of, devoid of, empty, empty of, existless,
     featureless, for want of, forlorn of, hollow, in default of,
     in want of, inane, innocent, insipid, lacking, minus, missing,
     needing, negative, nonexistent, null, null and void, out of,
     out of pocket, scant of, short, short of, shy, shy of,
     unblessed with, unexisting, unpossessed of, unrelieved, vacant,
     vacuous, void, void of, wanting, white, with nothing inside,
     without being, without content