hollow definizione dal dizionario inglese italiano

Definizione monolingua

hollow

hollow (third-person singular simple present hollows, present participle hollowing, simple past and past participle hollowed)

1. to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive)

hollow (plural hollows)

1. A small valley between mountains; ""he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies""
2. A sunken area in something solid.
3. (US) A sunken area, the equivalent to a copse in British English.
4. (figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
5. The New Zealand enunciation of hello.

hollow (comparative hollower, superlative hollowest)

1. (of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
2. (of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.

   a hollow moan

3. (figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

   a hollow victory

4. (figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.

   a hollow promise

Definizione dizionario hollow

vuoto

	cavità
	sunken area

cavo

depressione

	incavo
	having an empty space inside

bacino

buca

buco

conca

concavo

cupo

falso

fondo

fossa

incavare

incavato

infossamento

nicchia

profondo

scavare

sordo

spoglio

vacuo

vano

vuota

Altri significati:

(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.

To make a hole in something.

feeling of emptiness

(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

empty (space)

low-pitched

A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies"

(of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.

to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive)

(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

A sunken area in something solid.

Empty in the middle.

without substance

(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.

(grain) hollow

(US) A sunken area, the equivalent to a copse in British English.