devoid

de·void

adj \di-ˈvȯid\

Definition of DEVOID

: being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment —used with of <an argument devoid of sense> <a landscape devoid of life>

Examples of DEVOID

1. <the so-called comedy is totally devoid of intelligence, originality, and even laughs>
2. <the picnic jug was completely devoid of juice after only a few minutes>

Origin of DEVOID

Middle English, past participle of devoiden to dispel, from Anglo-French *desvoider, from des- dis- + voider to empty — more at void

First Known Use: 15th century

Related to DEVOID

Synonyms: bankrupt, bare, barren, bereft, destitute, void

Antonyms: filled, flush, fraught, full, replete, rife

Related Words: blank, empty, innocent, stark, vacant, wanting; deficient, fragmental, fragmentary, incomplete, insufficient, partial, short; absent, missing

Near Antonyms: furnished, provided, supplied; brimming, bulging, bursting, chock-full (or chockful), crammed, crowded, fat, jammed, jam-packed, loaded, packed, saturated, stuffed; abounding, swarming, teeming, thick, thronging

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Rhymes with DEVOID

android, avoid, chancroid, colloid, conoid, crinoid, cuboid, cycloid, deltoid, dendroid, discoid, factoid, fibroid, fungoid, ganoid, globoid, hydroid, hypnoid, keloid, mastoid, mucoid, ovoid, prismoid, pygmoid, rhizoid, rhomboid, schizoid, scombroid, sigmoid, spheroid, steroid, styloid, tabloid, thalloid, thyroid, toroid, toxoid, trochoid, typhoid, Veddoid, viroid