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void
[ void ]
adjective
- Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
- devoid; destitute (usually followed by of ):
a life void of meaning.
- without contents; empty.
- without an incumbent, as an office.
Synonyms: unoccupied, vacant
- Mathematics. (of a set) containing no elements; empty.
- (in cards) having no cards in a suit.
noun
- an empty space; emptiness:
He disappeared into the void.
- something experienced as a loss or privation:
His death left a great void in her life.
- a gap or opening, as in a wall.
- Typography. counter 3( def 10 ).
- (in cards) lack of cards in a suit:
a void in clubs.
verb (used with object)
- to make ineffectual; invalidate; nullify:
to void a check.
to void excrement.
- to clear or empty (often followed by of ):
to void a chamber of occupants.
- Archaic. to depart from; vacate.
verb (used without object)
- to defecate or urinate.
void
/ vɔɪd /
adjective
- without contents; empty
- not legally binding
null and void
- (of an office, house, position, etc) without an incumbent; unoccupied
- postpositivefoll byof destitute or devoid
void of resources
- having no effect; useless
all his efforts were rendered void
- (of a card suit or player) having no cards in a particular suit
his spades were void
noun
- an empty space or area
the huge desert voids of Asia
- a feeling or condition of loneliness or deprivation
his divorce left him in a void
- a lack of any cards in one suit
to have a void in spades
- Also calledcounter the inside area of a character of type, such as the inside of an o
verb
- to make ineffective or invalid
- to empty (contents, etc) or make empty of contents
- also intr to discharge the contents of (the bowels or urinary bladder)
- archaic.to vacate (a place, room, etc)
- obsolete.to expel
Derived Forms
- ˈvoidness, noun
- ˈvoider, noun
Other Words From
- voidness noun
- non·void adjective noun
- pre·void verb (used with object)
- un·void adjective
- un·voidness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of void1
Word History and Origins
Origin of void1
Idioms and Phrases
see null and void .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The Internet fills that void by making available infinite bespoke organizations.
After landing on countless decade-end best-of lists, it appears in the Golden Globe universe only as a cruel, uncaring void.
“It really feels like we’re screaming into the void and nothing is happening,” she said.
The first thing you’ll want to do is buy a protective mattress pad to help keep it clean—staining can void mattress warranties.
With the physical and social aspects of shopping stripped away due to various lockdown restrictions around the globe, shoppable social media is poised to fill the void.
His non-fiction fills, or helps to fill, the void left by Foster Wallace.
This book seeks to fill that void (although arguably atheist kids should get used to nothingness sooner rather than later).
But younger Hong Kong residents rushed to fill the void and started a series of protests.
“A suspended sentence becomes null and void after a certain period of time,” Rofugaran said.
In a sense, we occupy a weird place in the Universe: relatively close to both a void and several huge galaxy clusters.
The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.
When this is done a misrepresentation constitutes a breach of warranty and the contract becomes void.
Likewise the property must have been in existence at the time of making the contract, if it was not, the policy is void.
The onward path would then lead through a void which it would require years to traverse.
A lease made by a minor is not void, but he may avoid or cancel it by some positive act.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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