void

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adjective
  1. Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.

  1. devoid; destitute (usually followed by of): a life void of meaning.

  2. without contents; empty.

  3. without an incumbent, as an office.

  4. Mathematics. (of a set) containing no elements; empty.

  5. (in cards) having no cards in a suit.

noun
  1. an empty space; emptiness: He disappeared into the void.

  2. something experienced as a loss or privation: His death left a great void in her life.

  1. a gap or opening, as in a wall.

  2. Typography. counter3 (def. 10).

  3. (in cards) lack of cards in a suit: a void in clubs.

verb (used with object)
  1. to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify: to void a check.

  2. to empty; discharge; evacuate: to void excrement.

  1. to clear or empty (often followed by of): to void a chamber of occupants.

  2. Archaic. to depart from; vacate.

verb (used without object)
  1. to defecate or urinate.

Origin of void

1
First recorded in 1250–1300; (adjective) Middle English voide, from Anglo-French, Old French voide, voit, vuide, vuit (French vide ), from unattested Vulgar Latin vocīta, vocita feminine of vocītus, vocitus unattested and dissimilated variant of Latin vacīvus, vocīvus, “empty”; see vacuum; (verb) Middle English voiden, from Anglo-French voider, Old French, from unattested Vulgar Latin vocitāre, derivative of unattested vocītus, vocitus; (noun) derivative of the adjective

synonym study For void

3, 4. See empty.

Other words for void

Other words from void

  • voidness, noun
  • non·void, adjective, noun
  • pre·void, verb (used with object)
  • un·void, adjective
  • un·void·ness, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for void

void

/ (vɔɪd) /


adjective
  1. without contents; empty

  2. not legally binding: null and void

  1. (of an office, house, position, etc) without an incumbent; unoccupied

  2. (postpositive foll by of) destitute or devoid: void of resources

  3. having no effect; useless: all his efforts were rendered void

  4. (of a card suit or player) having no cards in a particular suit: his spades were void

noun
  1. an empty space or area: the huge desert voids of Asia

  2. a feeling or condition of loneliness or deprivation: his divorce left him in a void

  1. a lack of any cards in one suit: to have a void in spades

  2. Also called: counter the inside area of a character of type, such as the inside of an o

verb(mainly tr)
  1. to make ineffective or invalid

  2. to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents

  1. (also intr) to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder)

  2. archaic to vacate (a place, room, etc)

  3. obsolete to expel

Origin of void

1
C13: from Old French vuide, from Vulgar Latin vocītus (unattested), from Latin vacuus empty, from vacāre to be empty

Derived forms of void

  • voider, noun
  • voidness, noun

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Other Idioms and Phrases with void

void

see null and void.

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