devoid

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
devoid
    adj 1: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of
           insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience";
           "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of
           meaning" [syn: {barren}, {destitute}, {devoid}, {free},
           {innocent}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Devoid \De*void"\, v. t. [OE. devoiden to leave, OF. desvuidier,
   desvoidier, to empty out. See {Void}.]
   To empty out; to remove.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Devoid \De*void"\, a. [See {Devoid}, v. t.]
   1. Void; empty; vacant. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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   2. Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of
      sense; devoid of pity or of pride.
      [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "devoid":
      bankrupt in, bare, bare of, barren, bereft of, bland, blank,
      bleached, characterless, clear, deficient, denuded of, deprived of,
      destitute, destitute of, devoid of, empty, empty of, existless,
      featureless, for want of, forlorn of, hollow, in default of,
      in want of, inane, innocent, insipid, lacking, minus, missing,
      needing, negative, nonexistent, null, null and void, out of,
      out of pocket, scant of, short, short of, shy, shy of,
      unblessed with, unexisting, unpossessed of, unrelieved, vacant,
      vacuous, void, void of, wanting, white, with nothing inside,
      without being, without content

    

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