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HOLLOW-HEARTED

Definition: HOLLOW-HEARTED

HOLLOW-HEARTED

Adjective

1. Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "HOLLOW-HEARTED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Synonyms: HOLLOW-HEARTED

Synonyms: dishonest, false, treacherous. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: HOLLOW-HEARTED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Falsehood

Adjective: false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest, faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive; uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: HOLLOW-HEARTED

Language Translations for "HOLLOW-HEARTED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏فارغ القلب. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неискрен (disingenuous, false, feigned, hollow, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealy mouthed, oblique, phoney, pretended, synthetic, tortuous). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neupřímný (disingenuous, hypocritical, insincere, two-tongued). (various references)

   

French

  

de c"ur vide. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

álnok (deceitful, deceptive, deep, disingenuous, disloyal, double dealing, double faced, false-hearted, felon, perfidious, treacherous). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ollow-heartedhay

   

Portuguese

  

perfil vazio, falso (apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard, bogus, brummagem, buckram, cammed, canting, counterfeit, deceitful, double decker, double faced, double-tongued, dummy, error, faked, false, flash, imitation, insincere, lying, mendacious, mock, off-key, ostensible, painted, phoney, phony, pinchers, pretended, professed, self-styled, shifty, shoddy, simulated, sklent, slippery, slippy, snaky, snide, so called, spurious, supposititious, traitorous, treacherous, truthless, two faced, two-tongued, unfair, untrue, untrustworthy, wrong), desleal (cammed, devious, dishonest, disloyalty, fake, false, recreant, shifty, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, trustless, truthless, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, histrionic, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, squeamish, treacherous), nesincer (backhand, devious, disingenuous, double faced, insincere, insincerely, pecksniffian, tortuous, truthless), fals (apparent, artificial, bad, base, bogus, cant, colourable, counterfeit, deceitful, double dealing, dud, dummy, erroneous, erroneously, error, factitious, fake, false, falsehood, feigned, flash, forged, forgery, fraud, glossy, hollow, imitation, imposture, insincere, lying, mendacious, mistaken, mock, painted, phony, plugged, reprobate, sham, spurious, sugary, tinsel, treacherous, trumpery, truthless, two faced, unnatural, unnaturally, untrue, wrong, wrongfully). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неискренний (affected, canting, devious, diplomatic, disingenuous, fulsome, hollow, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealymouthed, mealy-mouthed, tongue in cheek, tortuous). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neiskren (affected, devious, disingenuous, double-tongued, fulsome, insincere, left handed, lip-deep, oblique). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

insincero (disingenuous, glib, insincere, phoney). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yürekten olmayan, samimiyetsiz (double-minded, insincere, mealy mouthed), içten olmayan (set). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

лукавий (ambidextrous, arch, canny, crafty, wicked, wily), бездушний (brute, callous, chill, hardened, hard-hearted, inanimate, ossified, soulless). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không th nh thật (backhanded, devious, disingenuous, double, double-faced), giả dối (insincere, lubricous). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "HOLLOW-HEARTED"

Words rhyming with "HOLLOW-HEARTED" (pronounced 'Hol"low-heart`ed'): Above-cited, Aforecited, Alike-minded, Antimoniureted, armor-plated, Arrowheaded, Arseniureted, Backhanded, baldheaded, Bank-sided, Barefooted, Barehanded, Beetle-headed, black-hearted, Blockheaded, Bluff-headed, Bristle-pointed, Broken-hearted, Broken-winded, Buckler-headed, Buffle-headed, Bullheaded, Carnal-minded, Cataphracted, Chicken-breasted, Chicken-hearted, Chuckleheaded, Clear-headed, Clear-sighted, Cleft-footed, Clodpated, Close-banded, Closefisted, Closehanded, Clubfisted, Clubfooted, Cold-blooded, Cold-hearted, Cool-headed, Cowhearted, Cross-banded, Dead-hearted, Deep-waisted, Dim-sighted, Discalceated, Dog-headed, Dog-hearted, Double-breasted, Doublethreaded, Dough-kneaded. (additional references)

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Anagrams: HOLLOW-HEARTED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-h-l-l-o-o-r-t-w"

-2 letters: leatherwood.

-3 letters: holohedral.

-4 letters: heartwood, holloware, trowelled.

-5 letters: hallooed, hallowed, hallower, haltered, hollered, holloaed, hollowed, hollower, hoorahed, latewood, lathered, leadwort, retooled, rowelled, tallowed, thralled, toolhead, towelled, troweled, waterloo, welldoer, wellhead, wreathed.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HOLLOW-HEARTED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 4F 4C 4C 4F 57 2D 48 45 41 52 54 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001111 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010111 00101101 01001000 01000101 01000001 01010010 01010100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#79 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#87 &#45 &#72 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#84 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 004C 004C 004F 0057 002D 0048 0045 0041 0052 0054 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4249464649571542393552543938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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