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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, blankness, desertedness, emptiness, gap, job, lack, opportunity, position, post, room, situation, space, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void, voidness |
| Antonyms: | fill, overflow |
| Main Entry: | void |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness, want |
| Synonyms: | blank, blankness, cavity, gap, hole, hollow, lack, nihility, nothingness, nullity, opening, space, vacuity, vacuum |
| Notes: | void means empty; devoid means empty, but empty only after something has been taken away |
| Antonyms: | fullness |
| Main Entry: | blankness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, blank, desolation, gap, hollowness, nothingness, vacancy, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void |
| Main Entry: | hollowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, blank, blankness, chasm, depletedness, desertedness, desolation, destitution, exhaustion, gap, inanition, inanity, vacancy, vaccum, vacuity, vacuousness, vacuum, void, waste |
| Main Entry: | interspace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, clove, crack*, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, discontinuity, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sinkhole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression |
| Synonyms: | basin, bowl, concavity, crater, dent, dimple, dip, excavation, hole, hollow, impression, indentation, pit, pocket, sag, scoop*, sink, sinkage, vacuity, vacuum, valley, void |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vacuousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emptiness |
| Synonyms: | barrenness, blank, blankness, chasm, depletedness, desertedness, desolation, destitution, exhaustion, gap, hollowness, inanition, inanity, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, waste |
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| Main Entry: | interspace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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alveolate, aveoliform, betwixt, broken, cavernous, chasmophilous, clathrate, cortinate, crackled, embolismal, episodic, ethmoid, far between, fatiscent, faviform, fretted, geodesic, interamnian, interaural, intercalary, intercalated, intercolline, intercurrent, interjacent, interlineal, interlinear, intermediary, intermediate, interstitial, intervenient, intervening, intrusive, machicolated, mediterranean, merged, parenthetical, rictal, rimose, sandwiched, slit, vuggy, with an interval
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| Concept: | Depression. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
lowering; depression; dip (concavity); abasement; detrusion; reduction., overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion, precipitation., bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance, salaam.
-verbs
depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce, detrude, pitch, precipitate., overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears., sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline (be horizontal).
-adjectives
depressed; at a low ebb; prostrate (horizontal); detrusive.
-phrases
facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].
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| Antonyms: | elevation |
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