blankadjective
uk/blæŋk/us/blæŋk/blank adjective (EMPTY)
B1 empty or clear, or containing no information or mark:
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- Press the return key twice to leave a blank line.
- If you give me a blank tape I'll record it for you.
- Just as the film was starting, the screen went blank.
- She left that page in her diary blank.
- At the end of the two-hour exam, he handed in a blank sheet of paper.
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Empty
- bare
- barren
- clear
- dead
- deserted
- desolate
- desolation
- emptiness
- empty
- flat
- hollow
- lifeless
- nothingness
- unfurnished
- uninhabited
- unoccupied
- vacant
- vacuum
- void
blank adjective (NOT REACTING)
C2 showing no understanding or no emotion in the expression on your face:
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Not showing or feeling emotions
- anodyne
- belie
- bite
- bite your lip idiom
- clinically
- detachment
- emptiness
- evenly
- expressionless
- glaze
- hard-bitten
- icy
- internalize
- phlegmatic
- po-faced
- poker-faced
- reserved
- sphinx-like
- stiff upper lip
- stoic
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blank adjective (COMPLETE)
[ before noun ] complete and absolute:
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Linguistics: intensifying expressions
- a heck of a sth/sb idiom
- a load of crap, nonsense, rubbish, etc. idiom
- all the way idiom
- annoy, frighten, scare, etc. the hell out of sb idiom
- anything
- as... as anything idiom
- be chilled/frozen to the marrow idiom
- clear
- core
- do you hear? idiom
- extreme
- hell of a idiom
- leastways
- like a ton of bricks idiom
- long
- more than idiom
- mortally
- out-and-out
- to hell idiom
- to the core idiom
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blanknoun [ C ]
uk/blæŋk/us/blæŋk/a space in a piece of writing or on a form, left empty for information to be added:
something not yet drawn or finished, such as a key not yet cut into a finished shape
also blank cartridge a small tube containing explosive but no bullet, used in a gun in order to make a loud noise without causing harm:
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Space - general words
- bay
- box
- chamber
- clearance
- elbow room
- expanse
- floor
- footprint
- headroom
- legroom
- patch
- room
- space
- spacing
- spacious
- spatial
- void
- way
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