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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not used; out of action |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, asleep, barren, closed down, dead, deserted, down, dusty, empty, gathering dust, inactive, inert, jobless, laid-off, leisured, mothballed, motionless, on the bench, on the shelf, out of operation, out of work, passive, quiet, redundant, resting, rusty, sleepy, stationary, still, uncultivated, unemployed, unoccupied, untouched, unused, vacant, void, waste, workless |
| Notes: | idle means not in action or at work; idyll means a simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life - or a lighthearted carefree episode or experience; idyllic means excellent and delightful in all respects |
| Antonyms: | active, busy, employed, productive, used, working |
| Main Entry: | invalid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worthless; unfounded |
| Synonyms: | bad, baseless, fallacious, false, ill-founded, illogical, inoperative, irrational, mad, not binding, not working, nugatory, null, null and void, reasonless, sophistic, unreasonable, unreasoned, unscientific, unsound, untrue, void, wrong |
| Antonyms: | sound, valid, worthwhile, worthy |
| Main Entry: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, flimsy, gone, gossamery, groundless, hallucinatory, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, imponderable, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void, passed away, passed on, perished, shadowy, tenuous, ungrounded, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existent, existing, real, true |
| Main Entry: | null |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ineffectual, valueless |
| Synonyms: | absent, bad, barren, characterless, imaginary, ineffective, inefficacious, inoperative, invalid, negative, nonexistent, nothing, null and void, powerless, unavailing, unreal, unsanctioned, useless, vain, void, worthless |
| Antonyms: | effective, effectual, valid, valuable, worthwhile, worthy |
| Main Entry: | stark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, unadorned |
| Synonyms: | au naturel, austere, bald, barren, bleak, chaste, clear, cold, depressing, desolate, dreary, empty, forsaken, grim, harsh, naked, nude, plain, raw, severe, solitary, stripped, unclad, unclothed, uncovered, undraped, vacant, vacuous, void |
| Antonyms: | clothed, covered |
| Main Entry: | vacant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty; unoccupied |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, available, bare, clear, deserted, devoid, disengaged, free, idle, not in use, stark, tenantless, to let, unemployed, unengaged, unfilled, uninhabited, unlived in, untaken, untenanted, unused, void, without contents |
| Notes: | vacant pertains mainly to things (vacant house) while vacuous pertains mainly to the absence or near absence of meaning or intelligence (vacuous expression) |
| Antonyms: | full, occupied, overflowing |
| Main Entry: | vacuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty; unintelligent |
| Synonyms: | airheaded, birdbrained, blank, drained, dull, dumb, emptied, foolish, half-baked, inane, lamebrained, minus, shallow, silly*, stupid, superficial, uncomprehending, unreasoning, vacant, void |
| Notes: | vacant pertains mainly to things (vacant house) while vacuous pertains mainly to the absence or near absence of meaning or intelligence (vacuous expression) |
| Antonyms: | aware, filled, full, intelligent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vain |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | futile, useless |
| Synonyms: | abortive, barren, bootless, delusive, delusory, empty, frivolous, fruitless, going nowhere, hollow, idle, in vicious circle, inefficacious, insignificant, misleading, no-win, not a prayer, nugatory, on a treadmill, otiose, paltry, petty, pointless, profitless, puny, senseless, shuck, slight, sterile, time-wasting, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unnotable, unproductive, unprofitable, valueless, void, worthless |
| Antonyms: | possible |
| Main Entry: | inoperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ineffectual |
| Synonyms: | broken, defective, faulty, unworkable, void |
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