void
/vɔɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
adj
Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
adj
Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
adj
Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
adj
Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
adj
Of a function or method, that does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
adj
Having no cards in a particular suit.
Example Sentences
- "Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense."
- "I'll get me to a place more void."
- "And the earth was without forme, and voyd, and darkeneſſe was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters."
- "c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country."
- "divers great offices that had been long void"
- "Suppoſe they be in number infinit, Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline, All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […] Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow."
Etymology
From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.