meaning of hollow
1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
5. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
6. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
7. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
8. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.
9. Hollo.
10. To shout; to hollo.
11. To urge or call by shouting.
12. a depression hollowed out of solid matter
Related Words
hollow | hollow out | hollow-back | hollow-eyed | hollow-hearted | hollow-horned | holloware | hollowed | hollowing | hollowly | hollowness | hollowware |
