Empty and Spare

Empty

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

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

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Spare

Spare adjective - Being over what is needed.

Empty and spare are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Empty" instead an adjective "Spare".

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

Common collocations

character empty character spare character
man empty man spare man
someone empty someone spare someone
rest empty rest spare rest
Other words: world, bullets.

Both words in one sentence

  • Eye Scream / Anime and Manga She hasn't learned her lesson, either — she keeps a spare bomb in her empty eye socket!
  • Useful Notes / NASA The only one of these ideas to reach fruition was Skylab, a Space Station built into an empty stage from a spare Saturn V.
  • Eyeless Face In Rebuild of Evangelion 3.0, when Shinji gets the Internal Reveal of Rei's clone nature, the lights come on to reveal racks of Rei heads with empty eye sockets, spare parts for future clones.
    Source: Eyeless Face
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