Empty and False

Empty

Empty adjective - Lacking contents that could or should be present.

False and empty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "False" instead an adjective "Empty".

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

False

False adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.
Usage example: so much of the sympathy that the widow received was false and hypocritical, since it came from people who never liked her husband in the first place

Empty and false are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead an adjective "False".

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Malcolm X False Roulette: Malcolm plays Russian Roulette with an empty gun to intimidate a criminal conspirator.
  • Critical Research Failure Frequently, a blatantly false "correct" answer is given for an answer that happens to be one that the contestants left empty.
  • Video Game / Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Due to the nature of how she came to be she was far too weak to do that and instead wound up as an empty voice who with the rest of the false gods like her gathered to an eternal world of dark where the Conception had failed to start.
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