Empty and Filled

Empty

Empty adjective - Lacking contents that could or should be present.
Usage example: the refrigerator is empty, so we'll have to eat out

Filled is an antonym for empty in topics: participle, fruitless, hungry, containing nothing.

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Filled

Filled adjective - Containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible.
Usage example: filled baskets of every variety of apple were available at the farmers' market

Empty is an antonym for filled in suffused topic.

Nearby Words: fill, filling, filler

Both words in one sentence

  • Tabletop Game / Dark Sun Tombs and temples from the Green Age dot the Tyr region, all of them either empty or filled with stuff that is very good at killing you.
  • Blank Book Type 1: It may be that the character is trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine of some kind and the book being empty or filled with nonsense is a sign that something isn't right, since a Master of Illusion would have to manually "write" each and every book himself.
    Source: Blank Book
  • The empty audio was often filled with jokes and references, instead of violations of Show, Don't Tell.
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Filled and Empty. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/empty/filled
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