Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Completely lacking; destitute or empty: a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To avoid; leave; depart from.
- To do away; put aside; destroy.
- Empty; vacant; void.
- Destitute; not possessing; lacking: with of: as, devoid of understanding.
- Synonyms Void, etc. See vacant.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To empty out; to remove.
- adj. obsolete Void; empty; vacant.
- adj. Destitute; not in possession; -- with
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WordNet 3.0
- adj. completely wanting or lacking
Etymologies
- Middle English, past participle of devoiden, to remove, eliminate, from Old French desvoidier : des-, de- + voidier, to empty (from voide, empty; see void). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Elizabeth looked up at him, her gaze straight, her expression devoid of coquetry, absolutely honest.”
“In this sense, "God" just becomes another term devoid of significant religious association.”
““Year of our Lord” despite its religious origin is a term devoid of any religious meaning in this day and age.”
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“Like Twilight, it would make the charts, but would remain devoid of substance and heart.”
“Fresh powder, long runs, and a mountain devoid of other people.”
“And that gives you a chance to pick up a bunch of starters on a team that believes it can win devoid of any marquee talent outside of V.Y. The Titans did not have much of a supporting cast last year, and Young almost got them to the playoffs.”
“Maya's desires to be a "normal" civilian overcame the requirement for her to be an efficient Harlequin devoid of any personal ties.”
“For what right can my slave have against me, when all that he has belongs to me, and, his right being mine, this right of mine against myself is a phrase devoid of meaning?”
“Nor are they called devoid of art because they really are so, but because it is not the art of the orator which produces them, but they are brought to him from abroad, as it were, and then he deals with them artistically; and this is especially the case as to witnesses.”
“Flat ubi vult, etc. 2Or sometimes a word devoid of all meaning as [Greek], which perhaps concealed some bitter allusion to the rules of the cloister; sometimes a simple maxim of monastic discipline set forth in a correct hexameter: Clesten Dominum, terrestrem dicite domnum.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘devoid’.
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@vcb.etym.prjct - SAT WORD DUMP - as ...
The words on this list SAT regulars that I haven't sorted and grouped yet. It's like my wordy holding pen. get it? holding the pen to write a word? HA! I love how lame my humor is.
iconoclast, glacial, agnostic, histrionic, treacly, contemptuous, captious, bombastic, bombast, perfidy, quiescence, sordid and 148 more...
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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hunting
crudely, unequivocal, obsolete, obscure, overtly, misdeed, shack, inherent, outcry, hefty, composed, poised and 318 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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Naked
Words relating to getting naked, being naked, the commonly naked, nakedness (partial or complete), and similar.
denude, strip, stripper, harlot, Cyprian, fancy woman, lady of pleasure, hooker, divest, unfrock, unclothe, disrobe and 115 more...
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Vocab3
admonish, aghast, annihilate, benefactor, bestow, devious, devoid, heed, mortal, muse, pioneer, plague and 3 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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Stumbled Words
A list of words that I stumbled upon while reading.
penumbra, prolix, propitious, resplendence, sepulchral, Weltschmerz, apparition, brigand, probity, chalice, paroxysm, pallor and 160 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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State Spelling Bee 2011
Words from the California State Spelling Bee in 2011, from which I got fourth place.
cymbidium, jurisprudence, entourage, cauterize, dressage, roux, pomaceous, malfeasance, jactitation, eclogue, caryotid, obloquy and 126 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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vocab 3
admonish, aghast, annihilate, benefactor, bestow, devious, devoid, heed, mortal, muse, pioneer, plague and 3 more...
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lesson 3
admonish, annihilate, aghast, benefactor, bestow, devious, devoid, heed, mortal, muse, pioneer, plague and 3 more...
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List I
effortless, sloppy, undignified, sprawled, paradigm, asinine, reek, stench, impassive, devoid, meticulously, logical fallacy and 79 more...
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