Word Meanings - VOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2. Void space , a vacuum. Syn. -- Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied; unoccupied. (more info) LL. vocitus, fr. L. vocare, an old form

Additional info about word: VOID

Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2. Void space , a vacuum. Syn. -- Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied; unoccupied. (more info) LL. vocitus, fr. L. vocare, an old form of vacare to be 1. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled. The earth was without form, and void. Gen. i. 2. I 'll get me to a place more void. Shak. I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, I may run over the story of his country. Massinger. 2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like. Divers great offices that had been long void. Camden. 3. Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use. Milton. A conscience void of offense toward God. Acts xxiv. 16. He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor. Prov. xi. 12. 4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. Isa. lv. 11. I will make void the counsel of Judah. Jer. xix. 7. 5. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. "Idol, void and vain." Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VOID)

• Annul
• Cancel
• obliterate
• make void
• quash
• nullify
• revoke
• rescind
• destroy
• set aside
• abrogate
• extinguish
• abolish
• repeal
• Desert
• Wild
• waste
• wilderness
• solitude
• void
• Devoid
• Void
• wanting
• destitute
• unendowed
• unprovided
• Empty
• Vacant
• clear
• unencumbered
• unobstructed
• unoccupied
• uninhabited
• unfrequented
• devoid
• vacuous
• unulled
• unfurnished
• untenanted
• evacuated
• deficient
• weak
• Billy
• idle
• senseless
• Evacuate
• abandon
• desert

Related words: (words related to VOID)

• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• ASIDE
  1. On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. Thou shalt set aside that which is full. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• BILLY GOAT
  A male goat.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• REPEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being repealable.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• ANNULARITY
  Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
• ANNUL
  1. To reduce to nothing; to obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton. 2. To make void or of no effect; to nullify; to abolish; to do away with; -- used appropriately of laws,
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• ABOLISHMENT
  The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DISANNULLER
  One who disannuls.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.