EMPTIER

Definitions: EMPTIER

EMPTIER

Comparative

1. Of Empty.

Noun

1. One who, or that which, empties.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "EMPTIER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Crosswords: EMPTIER

Etymologies containing "EMPTIER": Empty. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

We shop at home, we surf the net and we feel emptier and lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

But your world is just that much colder and emptier that they're gone. (Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Friedrich Nietzsche	Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"EMPTIER" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EMPTIER" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (comparative)	100%	13	97,576

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "EMPTIER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"较空. (various references)

Danish		nedpakker (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter), hytteudtager (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter). (various references)

Dutch		uitnemer (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter, take-out). (various references)

Finnish		uunin tyhjentäjä (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter), tarkastaja (auditor, checker, comptroller, controller, estimator, final examiner, government inspector, inspecting officer, inspector, lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter, spot checker, superintendent, supervisor). (various references)

French		videur d'arche, vidangeur. (various references)

German		leerer (blanker). (various references)

Greek		παραλήπτης παραγωγής (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter), αδειαστής γαλαρίας (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter). (various references)

Italian		scaricatore del forno di ricottura (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter). (various references)

Korean		�" 빈. (various references)

Manx		teaumeyder (baler, pourer, pumper, teemer, tipper), folmeyder. (various references)

Pig Latin		emptieray

Portuguese		desenfornador da arca (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter). (various references)

Spanish		arqueta (caskets, lehr assistant, lehr end service man, small box, sorter). (various references)

Swedish		kylugnssynare (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter), kylrörssynare (lehr assistant, lehr end service man, sorter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "EMPTIER": emptiers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"EMPTIER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emptae, empti, Lempriere. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "EMPTIER" (pronounced e"mptēer or e"mtēer)
3	-t ē er	cottier, courtier, dirtier, heftier, loftier, meatier, meteor, mightier, mintier, nastier, prettier, saltier, sportier, tastier, thriftier.
3	-t ē er	cottier, courtier, dirtier, heftier, loftier, meatier, meteor, mightier, mintier, nastier, prettier, saltier, sportier, tastier, thriftier.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: empire, epimer, metier, permit, premie, reemit, retime, temper.
	-2 letters: merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, peter, prime, remet, remit, retem, retie, tempi, timer, tripe.
	-3 letters: emir, emit, item, meet, mere, mete, mire, mite, peer, peri, perm, pert, pier, pree, prim, rete, rime, ripe, rite, teem, temp, term, tier, time, tire, tree, trim, trip.
	-4 letters: eme, ere, imp, ire, met, mir, pee, per, pet, pie, pit, ree, rei, rem, rep, ret, rim, rip, tee, tie, tip.
	-5 letters: em, er, et, it, me, mi, pe, pi, re, ti.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: emptiers, hemipter.
	+2 letters: distemper, expertism, hemipters, imperfect, impetrate, imprecate, perimeter, peristome, permitted, permittee, permitter, pretermit, tempering, temporise, temporize.
	+3 letters: distempers, experiment, expertisms, hemipteran, imperative, imperfects, impetrated, impetrates, imprecated, imprecates, impregnate, peppermint, perimeters, periosteum, peristomes, peritoneum, permeating, permeation, permeative, permethrin, permittees, permitters, piezometer, planimeter, preeminent, preempting, preemption, preemptive, prelimited, premeiotic, premoisten, presentism, pretermits, pretrimmed, redemption, redemptive, reimported, spermaceti, spirometer, suppertime, temporised, temporises, temporized, temporizer, temporizes, thermopile, timekeeper, trumperies.
	+4 letters: attempering, champerties, computerise, computerize, distempered, exemplarity, experiments, extemporise, extemporize, hemipterans, hemipterous, hemoprotein, hypermetric, imperatives, imperfectly, imperforate, imperilment, impermanent, impersonate, impertinent, implementer, implementor, impregnated, impregnates, impressment, improvement, intemperate, madreporite, masterpiece, metanephric, metanephroi, misreported, multiplexer, omnipresent, optometries, parametrize, peppermints, pepperminty, perithecium, peritoneums, permeations, permethrins, piezometers, piezometric, planimeters, polarimeter, preadmitted, predicament, predominate, preemptions, premeditate, premoistens, prenominate, presentisms, presumptive, preterminal, pyrometries, redemptions, reequipment, reimplanted, retempering, semiprivate, sempiternal, spermacetis, spirometers, suppertimes, temporalize, temporaries, temporizers, thermophile, thermopiles, timekeepers, timepleaser, trumpetlike.
	+5 letters: amperometric, amphitheater, appraisement, computerised, computerises, computerized, computerizes, computerlike, contemporize, decipherment, distemperate, distempering, encipherment, ephemerality, epileptiform, experimental, experimented, experimenter, extemporised, extemporises, extemporized, extemporizer, extemporizes, hemoproteins, hyperthermia, hyperthermic, impenetrable, impenetrably, imperatively, imperceptive, impercipient, imperfection, imperfective, imperilments, impersonated, impersonates, impertinence, impertinency, implementers, implementors, impressments, improvements, intemperance, intercompare, madreporites, masterpieces, meanspirited, metropolises, micropipette, mifepristone, misinterpret, misrepresent, multiplexers, overemphatic, parameterize, parametrized, parametrizes, peremptorily, performative, permeability, photometries, polarimeters, predetermine, predicaments, predominated, predominates, preeclamptic, preeminently, preemptively, premarketing, premeditated, premeditates, premeditator, premoistened, prenominated, prenominates, presentiment, pretermitted, pteridosperm, reattempting, redemptioner, reequipments, respirometer, respirometry, semiparasite, sempiternity, slipstreamed, spirometries, supereminent, temporalized, temporalizes, thermophiles, timepleasers.
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