Word Meanings - VOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2. Void space , a vacuum. Syn. -- Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied; unoccupied. (more info) LL. vocitus, fr. L. vocare, an old form
Additional info about word: VOID
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2. Void space , a vacuum. Syn. -- Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied; unoccupied. (more info) LL. vocitus, fr. L. vocare, an old form of vacare to be 1. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled. The earth was without form, and void. Gen. i. 2. I 'll get me to a place more void. Shak. I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, I may run over the story of his country. Massinger. 2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like. Divers great offices that had been long void. Camden. 3. Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use. Milton. A conscience void of offense toward God. Acts xxiv. 16. He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor. Prov. xi. 12. 4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. Isa. lv. 11. I will make void the counsel of Judah. Jer. xix. 7. 5. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. "Idol, void and vain." Pope.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VOID)
- Annul
- Cancel
- obliterate
- make void
- quash
- nullify
- revoke
- rescind
- destroy
- set aside
- abrogate
- extinguish
- abolish
- repeal
- Desert
- Wild
- waste
- wilderness
- solitude
- void
- Devoid
- Void
- wanting
- destitute
- unendowed
- unprovided
- Empty
- Vacant
- clear
- unencumbered
- unobstructed
- unoccupied
- uninhabited
- unfrequented
- devoid
- vacuous
- unulled
- unfurnished
- untenanted
- evacuated
- deficient
- weak
- Billy
- idle
- senseless
- Evacuate
- abandon
- desert
Related words: (words related to VOID)
- WANTLESS
Having no want; abundant; fruitful. - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - REVOKER
One who revokes. - DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - ASIDE
1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak. - WASTEL
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott. - BILLY GOAT
A male goat. - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - REPEALABILITY
The quality or state of being repealable. - WASTETHRIFT
A spendthrift. - CLEARER
A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison. - DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - ANNUL
1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws, - ANNULARITY
Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers. - WASTEBOARD
See 3 - ABOLISHMENT
The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker. - CANCELLATE
Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike. - VACANTLY
In a vacant manner; inanely. - WANTWIT
One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak. - CANCEL
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - OVERWASTED
Wasted or worn out; Drayton. - DISANNULLER
One who disannuls. - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - SELF-DESTROYER
One who destroys himself; a suicide. - ANGWANTIBO
A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.