1. Not solid; having a space, gap or cavity
   "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year"; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"
    
2. As if echoing in a hollow space
   "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"
    
3. Devoid of significance or force
   "a hollow victory";
   - empty, vacuous
    
4. Lacking in substance or character
   "a hollow person"

1. A cavity or space in something
   "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"
    
2. A depression hollowed out of solid matter
   "Water collected in the hollow of the rock";
   - hole
    
3. A small valley between mountains
   "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians";
   - holler [informal]

1. Remove the interior of
   "hollow out a tree trunk";
   - hollow out, core out
    
2. Remove the inner part or the core of
   "the mining company wants to hollow the hillside";
   - excavate, dig

Derived forms: hollowed, hollower, hollows, hollowest, hollowing

See also: cannular, cavernous, deep-set, empty, fistular, fistulate, fistulous, insubstantial, meaningless, nonmeaningful, recessed, reverberant, solidity, sunken, tubelike, tube-shaped, tubular, unreal, unsubstantial, vasiform

Type of: cavity, depression, empty, enclosed space, natural depression, remove, take, take away, vale, valley, withdraw

Antonym: solid

Encyclopedia: Hollow, Chris