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100 Best Synonyms for “Hollow”

June 23, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. abandoned left empty and unused
2. air-filled containing air inside
3. alveolate having small hollow cells
4. arched curved over a hollow space
5. bare without covering or filling
6. barren empty and unproductive
7. blank empty and lacking content
8. bleak empty and desolate
9. bored out drilled to make empty
10. bowl-shaped rounded and hollowed inward
11. cadaverous deathly thin and hollow-faced
12. carved out cut away from inside
13. cavernous large, deep, and hollow
14. cavity a hollow space inside
15. channeled cut with a hollow groove
16. concave curved inward like a bowl
17. cupped shaped like a small hollow
18. cylindrical tube-shaped and hollow
19. deep-set sunken inward noticeably
20. dented pressed inward by force
21. depressed lowered inward below surface
22. deserted empty of people
23. desolate empty and abandoned
24. dished made slightly concave
25. drained emptied of liquid or energy
26. drawn thin and hollow-looking
27. emaciated abnormally thin and hollow
28. empty having nothing inside
29. evacuated emptied of people
30. excavated dug out from within
31. exhausted used up; emptied out
32. expressionless showing no feeling
33. facile superficially easy or shallow
34. fistulous having a hollow passage
35. flat lacking life or force
36. flimsy weak and lacking substance
37. forsaken deserted and empty
38. furrowed lined with deep hollows
39. gaping wide open or cavernous
40. gaunt thin and hollow-cheeked
41. glassy-eyed with an empty stare
42. glib smooth but shallow
43. grooved marked by a hollow line
44. gutted emptied of the inside
45. haggard worn and hollow-faced
46. holed having a hole in it
47. hollowed out emptied from the inside
48. honeycombed full of hollow spaces
49. inane empty and pointless
50. indented marked by a hollowed area
51. insipid lacking interest or flavor
52. insubstantial lacking solid reality or depth
53. lacking not having enough of something
54. latticed formed with open spaces
55. lifeless without life or energy
56. meager lacking fullness or substance
57. meaningless without meaning or purpose
58. mechanical without natural feeling
59. mesh-like having many open gaps
60. minus lacking a specified thing
61. open not closed or filled
62. perforated pierced with holes
63. pipe-like resembling a hollow pipe
64. pitted marked with small hollows
65. porous full of tiny holes
66. punctured pierced to make a hole
67. recessed set back or inward
68. reticulate netlike with open spaces
69. robotic stiff and emotionless
70. scant barely enough; lacking fullness
71. scooped hollowed out like a scoop
72. shallow lacking depth or seriousness
73. shell-like like an empty outer covering
74. skeletal very thin and hollow-looking
75. skimpy insufficient or lacking fullness
76. spongy full of holes or spaces
77. sunken curving inward or depressed
78. superficial lacking depth or meaning
79. tenantless without occupants
80. tenuous thin or weakly supported
81. thin lacking depth or substance
82. troughed formed into a hollow channel
83. tubular shaped like a tube
84. unconvincing not persuasive or substantial
85. unfilled not filled up
86. uninhabited having no residents
87. unoccupied not taken or inhabited
88. used up fully exhausted or emptied
89. vacant not occupied or filled
90. vacated left empty by occupants
91. vacuous empty of thought or meaning
92. vapid dull and lacking substance
93. vaulted arched over like a hollow
94. vented provided with an opening
95. void completely empty inside
96. wanting lacking or deficient
97. weak lacking strength or effect
98. without lacking or not having
99. witless showing no intelligence
100. wooden stiff and without feeling

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