Empty and Slight

Empty

Empty adjective - Having no meaning.
Usage example: spare me your empty apologies because if you were truly sorry, you'd change

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

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Slight

Slight adjective - Lacking bodily strength.

Empty and slight are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead an adjective "Slight".

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / The Illusionist Instead of simply giving them some money, which he's certainly capable of, he instead gives most of them one coin each with a slight-of-hand trick — except the last one, who he gives an empty handkerchief... Before raining coins down from his empty hands on the last boy and his fellows.
  • A slight variant in Miyazaki Maya's Minimum; when the mini data girl, an Artificial Human, was first brought into the real world, one of the first things that she did was empty her full bladder.
  • Fanfic / The Sweetie Chronicles: Fragments Throwing the Distraction: Not exactly throwing, but Sweetie uses her Prestidigitation spell to distract the werewolf searching for her by causing a slight motion and a whimpering noise in an actually-empty pile of garbage.
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