Devoid Of

Definition: Devoid Of

Devoid Of

Adjective

1. Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness"; "a life empty of happiness"; "innocent of literary merit"; "void of understanding".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Devoid Of

Error

Adjective: erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious, apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial; heretical; (heterodox); unsound; illogical.

Exemption

Adjective: exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with; immune from.

Insufficiency

Slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute of, devoid of, bereft of; denuded of; dry, drained.

Weariness

Adjective: wearying; Verb: wearing; wearisome, tiresome, irksome; uninteresting, stupid, bald, devoid of interest, dry, monotonous, dull, arid, tedious, humdrum, mortal, flat; prosy, prosing; slow, soporific, somniferous.

Crosswords: Devoid Of

He's the only jazz musician I can think of who is completely devoid of anarchist tendencies. (The Russia House; writing credit: John Le Carré; Tom Stoppard)

Its some kind of hollow tube, devoid of human life. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

I am not devoid of humor. (Animaniacs; writing credit: Nick Dubois; Peter Hastings)

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

The western region of Australia's Great Sandy Desert is an area almost devoid of sand, but characterized by complex geology. Credit: NASA.

Blackbird Creek, at the mine site. This creek is devoid of life because of the high levels of copper leached from the mine. Contamination is from acid mine drainage containing high levels of copper. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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

Health

They are devoid of mineralocorticoid activity, relatively weak in immunosuppressive activity, and exert longer duration of action than cortisol and methylprednisolone. (references)

Political Economy

South Africa

As noted earlier, the 1999 national election was practically devoid of political violence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "devoid of": be devoid of feeling ♦ devoid of feelings ♦ devoid of humor ♦ devoid of humour ♦ devoid of inhabitants ♦ devoid of pity ♦ devoid of reason ♦ devoid of sense ♦ devoid of shame. Additional references.

Albanian

i shkretë (blessed, desert, deserted, desolate, devoid of inhabitants, inhospitable, lifeless, lonely, lonesome, poor, waste, wild), i papopulluar (devoid of inhabitants, uninhabitable, uninhabited, unmanned, unpopulated). (various references)

Arabic 

‏خلو من (destitute of, void of). (various references)

Bulgarian 

необитаван (devoid of inhabitants, uninhabited, vacant, vacuous). (various references)

Chinese 

虛 (devoid of content, empty, false, vain, void). (various references)

Czech

zbavený èeho (deprived). (various references)

Danish

ingen genstand (the application is devoid of purpose). (various references)

Dutch

geen voorwerp (the application is devoid of purpose). (various references)

Finnish

tyhjä (bare, blank, empty, idle, vacant, vain, void). (various references)

French

le recours est sans objet (the application is devoid of purpose). (various references)

German

bar (able, absolute, bar, bare, cash, completely without, in cash, nightclub, pure, utter). (various references)

Greek 

χωρίς (without), άνευ (sans, without). (various references)

Hungarian

igénytelen (austere, devoid of all pretence, frugal, modest, self-denying, unassuming, undemanding, unpretending). (various references)

Italian

mancanza d'oggetto (the application is devoid of purpose). (various references)

Pig Latin

evoidday ofay

Portuguese

destituído de (without), livre de. (various references)

Romanian

lipsit de (bare, destitute of, poor in, void of, without smth.), fãrã (besides, clear of, ex, less, minus, save, wanting, without). (various references)

Russian 

лишенный (bereft, devoid, innocent, minus, naked, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bez stanovnika (devoid of inhabitants). (various references)

Spanish

desprovisto de (bare of), libertado de. (various references)

Swedish

humorlös (devoid of humor, devoid of humour). (various references)

Turkish

yoksun (bankrupt in, bereft, destitute, empty, innocent of, out of, shorn, shorn of, unprovided, void of, wanting), -siz (ex, guiltless, in-, innocent of, lacking, non-, out of, sans, sine, un-, void of, wanting, with no, without), -sız (ex, in-, innocent of, sine, void of, wanting, with no, without), mahrum (bankrupt in, deprived, destitute, shorn, shorn of, unprovided). (various references)

Ukrainian

безжалісний (cold blooded, compassless, devoid of pity, dispiteous, grim, inexorable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, stony, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references)

careat, carere, caritas, carmonii, caruit, cassa, cassam, cassis, casso, cassum, vacua, vacuam, vacuas, vacui, vacuis, vacuos, vacuum, vacuus, vacuusque. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: devoid, foodie, voided.

-3 letters: diode, dived, ovoid, video.

-4 letters: defi, dido, died, dive, dodo, dove, eddo, feod, fido, five, food, vide, vied, void.

-5 letters: dev, did, die, doe, fed, fid, fie, foe, odd, ode, vie, voe.