devoid

English

Etymology

From obsolete (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English verb devoiden, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French desvuidier (“to empty out”) (compare French dévider).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɔɪd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Adjective

devoid (not comparable)

1. empty; having none of; completely without

   I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.

Derived terms

• devoidness

Translations

empty, completely without

• Armenian: զուրկ (hy) (zurk)
• Bulgarian: празен (bg) (prazen), лишен от (lišen ot)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空的

• Dutch: verstoken zijn van
• Finnish: ei mitään + partitive ("devoid of sthg")
• French: dépourvu (fr)
• Georgian: რამეს მოკლებული (rames moḳlebuli), რამისგან დაცლილი (ramisgan daclili)
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• German: frei (von) adj.: leer
• Hebrew: נעדר (he) (ne'edár), חסר (he) (khasár)
• Italian: privo (it), senza (it)
• Persian: فاقد (fa) (fâqed)
• Portuguese: destituído (pt), desprovido (pt)
• Romanian: golit, fără de conținut
• Russian: пусто́й (ru) (pustój), поро́жний (ru) (poróžnij)
• Spanish: vacío (es), desprovisto (es)

Verb

devoid (third-person singular simple present devoids, present participle devoiding, simple past and past participle devoided)

1. (obsolete) To empty out; to remove.

   The child will devoid the garbage after he devours his sandwich.

Anagrams

• voddie, voided