1. Adjective
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. Adjective
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
3. Adjective
Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
4. Adjective
Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
5. Noun
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. Noun
A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
7. Verb
To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
8. Adverb
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. Interjection
Hollo.
10. Verb
To shout; to hollo.
11. Verb
To urge or call by shouting.
12. Noun
a depression hollowed out of solid matter
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
13. Noun
a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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