Law. having no legal force or effect; not legally binding or enforceable.
useless; ineffectual; vain.
devoid; destitute (usually followed by of): a life void of meaning.
without contents; empty.
without an incumbent, as an office.
Mathematics. (of a set) 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.
a vacancy; vacuum.
Typography. counter3 (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 empty; discharge; evacuate: 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.
Origin of void
First recorded in 1250–1300; (adjective) Middle English voide, from Anglo-French, Old French voide, voit, vuide, vuit (French vide ), from unattested Vulgar Latin vocīta, vocita feminine of vocītus, vocitus unattested and dissimilated variant of Latin vacīvus, vocīvus, “empty”; see vacuum; (verb) Middle English voiden, from Anglo-French voider, Old French, from unattested Vulgar Latin vocitāre, derivative of unattested vocītus, vocitus; (noun) derivative of the adjective
SYNONYMS FOR void
5 vacant, unoccupied.
8 vacuum.
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synonym study for void
3, 4. See empty.
OTHER WORDS FROM void
voidness,nounnon·void,adjective,nounpre·void,verb (used with object)un·void,adjective