Hollow

Definition: Hollow

Hollow

Adjective

1. Not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year".

2. Deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses".

3. As if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom".

4. Devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments".

Noun

1. A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks".

2. A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians".

3. A depression hollowed out of solid matter.

Verb

1. Remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite".

2. Remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk".

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

Date "hollow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Industry

Literature

Slang in 1811

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

Synonyms: Hollow

Aphony

Croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough.

Completeness

Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.

Concavity

Render concave; Adjective: depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge, gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow, tunnel, stave in.

Noun: concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness; indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough; (furrow); honeycomb.

Adjective: depressed; Verb: alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing; favaginous, faveolate, favose; scyphiform, scyphose; concave, hollow, stove in; retiring; retreating; cavernous; porous; (with holes); infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform; funnel shaped, bell shaped; campaniform, capsular; vaulted, arched.

Falsehood

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

Incompleteness

Adjective: incomplete; imperfect; unfinished; uncompleted; (see complete; ); defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude; (unprepared).

Reasoning,

Deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum, evasive; irrelevant.

Unsubstantiality

Vacant, vacuous; empty; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal; null; inane.

Crosswords: Hollow

I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow. (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

This this, the hollow at the base of a woman's throat, does it have an official name (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)

It looks like hollow wood (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean)

But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

He could be behind the wall, inside the water barrel, beneath a pile of leaves, up in the tree, squatting down behind the car, concealed in a hollow, or crouched behind any one of a hundred bushes (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman)

There were those empty threats and hollow lies (It's all coming back to me now; performing artist: Celine Dion)

A Young Girl's Dream No Longer Hollow (Wide Open Spaces; performing artist: DIXIE CHICKS)

From this hollow in my heart (Love Takes Time; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

Down in the hollow (Brown Eyed Girl; performing artist: VAN MORRISON)

The Marshal of Windy Hollow (1972)

Surfing Hollow Days (1961)

Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1958)

Crow Hollow (1952)

November Comes (performing artist: Hollow Men)

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

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Iron and Steel Bars, Rods, and Hollow Mining Drill Steel: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia (reference)

• Applaud the Hollow Ghost (reference)

• The Hollow Hills (Stewart, Mary, Arthurian Saga, Bk. 2.) (reference)

• Carving Duck Decoys: With Full-Size Patterns for Hollow Construction (reference)

• Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane (Smithsonian's Backyard) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Saddle Club - Adventures at Pine Hollow (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 33, Episodes 65 & 66: For The World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky/ Day Of The Dove (reference)

• Hollow Man (reference)

• Sleepy Hollow (reference)

• The Scar (aka Hollow Triumph) (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Hatful of Hollow (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ames 1564000 Dig-Ezy Jr. Hollow Back Round Point Shovel (reference)

• Wüsthof Classic 7-Inch Hollow Edge Santoku Knife (reference)

• Wüsthof Classic 10-Inch Hollow Edge Ham Slicer (reference)

• DeWalt DW3326 7-1/4" 140-Tooth Steel Hollow Ground Plywood Saw Blade (reference)

• Powermatic 1791263K Model 719A Hollow Chisel Mortiser (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

The Mansonia and Coquillettidia mosquitoes are distinguished by the radically modified siphon. These two genera insert their siphons into the hollow roots of aquatic plants in order to access their air supply. Credit: CDC.

Figure 26. Effects of pressure on different types of hollow tubes as studied by John Young Buchanan, both during his experiences on the CHALLENGER expedition and with Prince Albert I of Monaco on the PRINCESS ALICE II in 1902. Buchanan published his study of hyperpressure effects in 1903. The brass tube, copper sphere, and debris from a Portier and Richard bottle were all studied in 1902. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Silent City hollow boulderBurley Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Terry Maley.

Burning Juniper at Sage Hollow. Credit: Steve Lent.

I can leave most of the kegful buried in a hollow tree. Credit: Library of Congress.

McLeod's cabin, Happy Hollow, Hot Springs, Ark. Credit: Library of Congress.

Rip Van Winkle House, Sleepy Hollow, Catskill Mountains, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

Primitive chicken roost, carved out of hollow log, on farm of rehabilitation client, Boone County, Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hollow folk who beg along Skyline Drive, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mrs. Leon Abbett, residence on Pound Hollow Rd., Glen Head, Library. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He spoke before the bell had sounded, which it now did with a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE.

Equatorial! He gave a hollow laugh

The thickness of the mass of bodies was proportioned to the depth of the hollow road

Al flipped the radiator cap and it jumped into the air with a head of steam behind it, and a hollow bubbling sound came out of the radiator

His visage was meager, his hair lank and thin, and his voice hollow.

We may imagine a time when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

These waves of narrowing push the food and fluid in front of them through each hollow organ. (references)

Cardiac catheterization--A procedure in which a thin, hollow tube is inserted into a blood vessel. (references)

Bone marrow is soft tissue in the hollow center of bones, and it is the original source of all blood cells. (references)

Business

According to Consul Steel, many consumers are initially put off by the hollow sound of the interior walls. (references)

The domestic market is saturated with low quality ceramic building bricks and glazed ceramic tiles (HS 6904, 6905, 6907, 6908). The production and sale of glazed ceramic tile squares is slowing down, while the production of middle and top level of solid and hollow ceramic building bricks (and marble as well) is increasing. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "hollow": All hollow ♦ be hollow ♦ beat all hollow ♦ beat smb. hollow ♦ become hollow ♦ Coeymans Hollow ♦ feel hollow ♦ frost hollow ♦ hexagonal hollow set screw ♦ hollow arm ♦ hollow bar ♦ hollow bit ♦ hollow block ♦ hollow body ♦ hollow box ♦ hollow charge ♦ hollow commendation ♦ Hollow Creek ♦ hollow dam ♦ hollow head set screw ♦ hollow key ♦ hollow mockery ♦ Hollow newel ♦ hollow of the knee ♦ hollow out ♦ hollow pin ♦ hollow pot ♦ hollow profile ♦ hollow punch ♦ Hollow quoin ♦ Hollow Rock ♦ Hollow root ♦ hollow screw ♦ hollow sea ♦ hollow space ♦ hollow square ♦ hollow tile ♦ Hollow ware ♦ Hunters Hollow ♦ Laurel Hollow ♦ Preston Hollow ♦ ring hollow ♦ Sleepy Hollow ♦ sound hollow ♦ Wide Hollow. Additional references.

Beginning with "hollow": hollow-back, hollow-backed, hollow-bodied, hollow-body, hollow-cast, hollow-casting, hollow-cheeked, hollow-ended, hollow-eyed, hollow-faced, Hollow-hearted, Hollow-horned, hollow-horning, hollow-nosed bullets, hollow-point bullets, hollow-side, hollow-tined, hollow-tines, hollow-tube.

Ending with "hollow": semi-hollow.

Albanian

i zbrazët (blank, empty, vacant, vacuous, void), fushëgropë, fyl, govatë (cavity, chute, depression, dough-trough, eye socket, eyehole, manger, seed-can, shoot, stall, tray, trough, washtub), gropë (cave, cavity, dint, dugout, excavation, hole, pocket, sink, socket, sump, trough), i mbytur (drowned, muffled, muted, strangulated, suffocated, throttled, wrecked), i rremë (affected, delusive, delusory, fallible, false, fictitious, fictive, illusive, lying, mendacious, meretricious, mock, out of whole cloth, pasteboard, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, plastic, pseudo, simulated, spoof, spurious, supposititious, untruthful), i shtirë (affected, airy, camp, counterfeit, feigned, folksy, hypocritical, precious), bosh (bare, bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, gassy, hot air, idle, inane, milk and water, open, thin, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, white), i uritur (empty, esurient, famished, hungry, starveling), zgavër (cavity, hole, Lacuna, socket, trough, vault), i zgavërt, krejtësisht (all, altogether, cap-a-pie, completely, entirely, fundamentally, hard, perfectly, purely, quite, through and through, to a frazzle, utterly), luginëz (Glen), lugore (Glen), pa bukë, plotësisht (absolutely, all, at large, clear, cold, completely, dead, diametrically, entirely, fully, heartily, large, neck and crop, out and out, outright, perfectly, plain, plenty, Plumb, properly, quite, sheer, sound, stark, thoroughly, through and through, throughly, to the full extent, to the ground, totally, up, up to the hilt, utterly, well, wholly, wide, widely), të futura, i thelluar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏فارغ (barren, blank, empty, flatulent, idle, inane, leisure, meaningless, pointless, senseless, silly, stupid, vacuous, vain, windy), ‏مقور (gouged), ‏مجوف (boracic), ‏قعر (bed, bottom, concave, depth, dish, floor, foot), ‏حفرة (bore, cavity, excavation, fossa, grave, hole, pit, trough), ‏غور (dent, sink, sink in, trough, valley), ‏غائر (cavernous, female, gummy, sunken), ‏تجويف (bore, bowl, cavity, chamber, concavity, dent, excavation, hole, pit, pocket, recess, scoop, sinus, socket), ‏علقه, ‏أجوف (blank). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глух (dead, deaf, dim, flat, impervious, inward, outlandish, tuneless), дълбок (abysmal, abyssal, deep, dreamless, heavy, intense, intimate, penetrating, penetrative, profound, rooted, visceral), падина (delve, depression, dimple, dip, dish, fold, hope, pocket, trough), пещера (cave, cavern, cove, lair), празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, idle, inane, light, loose, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty), празнина (blank, cavity, gap, hiatus, vacancy), без стойност (inane, naught, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, valueless, worthless), напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, clean, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, sheer, spang, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve), неискрен (disingenuous, false, feigned, hollow-hearted, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealy mouthed, oblique, phoney, pretended, synthetic, tortuous), неубедително, вдлъбнат (concave, indented), дълбая (carve, cave, chamber, chip, corrode, delve, excavate, wear away), гладен (esurient, hard set, hungry, lean, peckish, ravenous, unfed), ставам кух, котловина (kettle, pan), коруба, кух (pithless), кухина (cavity, chamber, fossa, hole, lumen, pit, recess, ventricle, vug), кухо, тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, slow, sodden, stupid, thick, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed), фалшив (bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, factitious, fake, false, fictitious, imitative, insincere, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, queer, sharp, snide, spurious, supposititious, tinsel), хлътнал (cavernous, deep, hollow-cheeked, sunk, sunken), хлътнатина (vug), хралупа, вдлъбнатина (chase, concave, concavity, cove, groove, hole, indent, indentation, indention, notch, pan, pit, recess, socket, well). (various references)

Chinese 

凹陷 (depressed, sunken). (various references)

Czech

zapadlý (bogged down, cavernous, godforsaken, remote, sunken), vpadlý (cavernous, sunken), temný (dark, gloomy, murky, obscure, sad, shady, somber, sombre), pustý (bleak, desert, desolate, dreary, godforsaken, stark, void, waste, wild), propadlý (addicted, lapsed), prohlubeò (pit), prázdný (bare, blank, clean, disused, empty, inane, light, meaningless, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, vapid, void, windy), nepřirozený (contrived, factious, far fetched, farfetched, unholy, unnatural), dutina (cavity, follicle, sinus, ventricle), dutý, úžlabina (gully, ravine). (various references)

Danish

hul (concave, hole). (various references)

Dutch

hol (cave, cavern, cavity, concave, den, empty, void), ingevallen (concave). (various references)

Esperanto

malmasiva, kaverna, kaveca, kava (concave), enkaviĝinta. (various references)

Farsi 

پوچ (Absurd, Airy, Empty, Inane, Inoperative, Invalid, Nude, Nugatory, Sawdust, Unmeaning, Vacuous, Vain, Void), پوک , میالن تهی , کاواک (Cavity), گودافتاده , گودشده , غیرصمیمی (Distant, Insincere, Lukewarm), تهی (Barren, Basic, Devoid, Empty, Inane, Indigent, Jejune, Leer, Toom, Vacuous, Vain, Void), خالی کردن (Aspirate, Deplete, Discharge, Disgorge, Empty, Evacuate, Purge, Vacate, Vent), بی حقیقت . (various references)

Finnish

uurtaa (cut, furrow, groove, scote), syvänne (deep place), sisäänpainunut (sunken), sisäänimu (depression, suck-in), ontto (empty), ontelo (cavity), onkalo (cavity), notko (dell), kuoppa (dimple, hole, pit), kumea (dull), kovertaa (gouge, scoop out), kovera (concave), kolo (cave, cavity, hole). (various references)

French

creux (hole), cavité (hollowness). (various references)

German

hohl (cavernous, concave, cupped, deep set, empty, frothy, hollowly, shallow, sunken, vacant), hohlraum (cavity, hollow space, lacuna, vacuum), höhle (antrum, burrow, cave, cavern, cavity, den, grotto, hole, hovel, lair, pothole, socket), delle (buckle, bump, dent, indent, indentation). (various references)

Greek 

κοιλότητα (alcove, cavity, chamber, concaveness, concavity, pock). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכתש (cavity, crater, mortar), שקע (depression, low, mortise, pan, socket, trough), חלל (absconcio, cavity, socket, vacuum, void), חלול (defamation, desecration, dishonour, lacunary, profanation, secularization, violation), ריקני (vain), נקב (bore, hole, orifice, pore, puncture), נבוב (empty). (various references)

Hungarian

beesett (sunken), üreges (cavernous, concave, cored, pitted, scooped, scooped out), üreg (cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, cove, cubbyhole, delve, excavation, foss, fossa, fosse, hole, lodge, pot hole, recess, sinus, socket, vug, well). (various references)

Indonesian

lembah (dale, dell, gap, glen, vale, valley), keropos (porous, rarefied, rotten, spongy), gerohok (empty), celung (sunken), berlubang. (various references)

Irish

toll. (various references)

Italian

cavo (cabel, cable, concave, hawser, robe, rope, sunken, tightrope, trunk, wire), Cavità (cave, cavern, cavity, chamber, hole, hollowness, pit, pocket, socket). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

虚ろ (blank, cavity, empty), 空洞 (cave, cavity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おうしょ (concavity, depression), おうち (back regions, backwoods, basin, depression, hinterland, interior, pit, reaching a peak, reaching the limit), おう (depression, female phoenix bird, king, monarch, old man, ruler, sovereign, sunken, to bear, to chase, to cut, to grow, to owe, to run after, to spring up, venerable), なかびく (concave), くぼたまり (pond in a hollow), くぼみ (cavity, dent), くぼち (basin, depression, pit), くうどう (cave, cavity), くり (chestnut, monastery kitchen, priests' quarters, scoop), しんくう (empty, vacuum), うつろ (blank, cavity, empty), からっぽ (empty, vacant), あなぼこ (hole), へこみ (dent, depression), ちゅうくう (emptiness, mid-air, the air). (various references)

Korean 

구렁. (various references)

Manx

towl (aperture, bore, bore of gun, boring, bung hole, burrow, cavity, crater, den, den of fox, earth, eyehole, hole, leak, penetration, perforation, port, pothole, shaft, vent, vent-hole, water supply), sloghan, slogh (pit, shaft), sloc, laggan, lagg, jeeigey (ditch, ditching, drain, draining, exhaust, tilt), folmaghey (blow out, clear out, deflate, deflation, deplenish, depletion, discharge, drain, drink up, empty, evacuation, unburden, vacate, void), follym (barren, barren as mind, blank, blank as cartridge, disengaged, empty, empty-handed, expressionless, flat, formal, free, inane, platitudinous, run down, shallow, vacant, vacuous, void, waste, waste in town), clash (channel, cleft, gorge, groove, open furrow, race, rubbish tip, trench, vale). (various references)

Norwegian

hulning, hul, innfallen, fordypning. (various references)

Pig Latin

ollowhay.(various references)

Portuguese

cavidade (antrum, belly, bowl, bunt, cave, chuck-hole, delve, dent, hole, scoop, vesicle), vazio (addle, bare, blank, blankness, chasm, claptrap, concave, emptiness, empty, inane, unoccupied, vacancy, vacuity, vacuous, vacuum, vain, void), oco (addle, claptrap, concave, frothy), concavidade (concave, cope of heaven, fold), buraco (aperture, boring, cup, loophole, mouth, opening, orifice, rent). (various references)

Romanian

hârtop (groove), coclauri (ravine, wilderness), gãunoşiturã, flãmând (empty, hard set, hunger-bitten, hungry, peckish, ravenous, starving), 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-hearted, 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), dogit (broken, cracked, hoarse), depresiune (basin, blues, bottom, cave, cavity, dejection, delve, depression, despondency, draw, melancholia, notch, pan, sag, scoop), de-a binelea (indeed, thoroughly), înfundãturã (recess), complet (absolute, all out, broad, clear, collected, complement, complete, completely, comprehensive, dead, down to the ground, downright, entire, entirely, every bit, every inch, exhaustive, fairly, flat, full, fully, good, outright, perfect, purely, quite, stark, strict, suite, thorough, thoroughly, thoroughpaced, to the bone, total, unabridged, utter, utterly, whole), gol (abyss, bald, bare, bare-bodied, barren, blank, blankness, desert, deserted, empty, gap, genuine, hollowness, inanity, leafless, naked, nakedly, nude, out at, shallow, stripped, uncovered, vacancy, vacuum, void, waste, windy), cavitate (cave, cavity, delve, dimple, hole, hollowness, recess, socket), cavernos (cavernous, deep-sounding, sepulchral), cavernã (cave, cavern, cavity), arcui (arch, bend, embow), afundãturã (bottom, den), adânciturã (delve, Dent, depression, indent, pan, pit, trough), adâncit (sunken), cotlon (den, fold, recess), scobi (cave, dig, groove, gutter, hew out, hole, Peck, pick, recess), vãgãunã (gorge, gully, nook, ravine), tare (adamant, adamantine, badly, crusty, deeply, double, durable, fast, fierce, firm, firmly, greatly, hard, intense, intensely, lasting, leathery, loud, loudly, mighty, potent, powerful, rigid, robust, rocky, solid, spanking, stalwart, steady, stiff, stout, strong, strongly, sturdy, to the echo, tough, unflinching, unflinchingly, vehement, vigorous, violent), surd (deaf, dull, hidden, secret, sharp, smothered, unvoiced), sec (bald, barren, cold, dried up, drily, dry, dull, empty, glacial, harshly, literal, stupid, useless), se scobi (pick), scorburos, scorburã, gãunos (inane, shallow, sunken), scobit (sunken), gaurã (aperture, burrow, cave, cavity, den, earth, eyelet, gap, hole, loop, opening, orifice, pink, vent), sãpa (burrow, cave, cut, delve, dig, drive, engraft, engrave, excavate, grave, hoe, hole, inscribe, lift, mine, pick, sink, spud, trench, undermine), roade (abrade, canker, consume, corrode, crunch, eat, eat into, eat through, erode, fester, fray, fruitage, gall, gnaw, nibble, prey, wear), prãpastie (abysm, abyss, chaos, chasm, depth, disaster, gulf, precipice, ravine, scar, steep), lipsit de conţinut (blank, frothy), ipocrit (cant, canter, canting, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, false, feigner, histrionic, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, squeamish, Tartuffe), groapã (cavity, cell, grave, pit, pitfall, pool, pot hole, socket), vale (bottom, dale, Glen, pan, river, stream, Vale, valley), scobiturã (dimple, excavation, flute, groove, hole, hollowness, lug, trough). (various references)

Russian 

впалый (cavernous), дупло, пазуха (alai, axil, bosom, sinus), пещера (cave, cavern, grotto), полость (antra, antrum, camera, cave, cavity, cavosurface, chamber, concavity, hole, vesicle, void), полый (bladdery, cored, sunken), пустой (addle, barren, blank, chaffy, do-nothing, empty, feather-brained, feckless, fiddling, foppish, frivolous, frothy, gassy, gossipy, light, light-headed, null, sunken, vacant, vacuous, vapid), пустота (emptiness, frivolity, frothiness, inanity, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, vapidity, void), пустотелый, долбить дупло полый;пустой, впадина (cave, cavity, concave, delve, depression, dimple, dint, excavation, falling, fossa, indentation, notch, recess, trough, vug), углубление (depression, dimple, excavation, fossa, hole, impression, notch, oriel, recess, recession), вполне (altogether, completely, fully, out and out, outright, perfectly, plenty, pretty, quite, richly, thoroughly, throughly, to a nicety), выдолбленный, глухой (deaf, impervious, outlandish, surd, unvoiced, voiceless), голодный (empty, esurient, famished, hard set, hungry, peckish, starveling), гулкий (loud), кратер (crater), рытвина (pothole, pot-hole), яма (hole, pit), неискренний (affected, canting, devious, diplomatic, disingenuous, fulsome, hollow-hearted, insincere, lip, lip-deep, mealymouthed, mealy-mouthed, tongue in cheek, tortuous). (various references)

Scottish

toll (a hole, cavity, crevice : toll-dubh, hole, perforate), sloc (a pit, cavity, concave, den, pit, slough), lag (a hollow, dell, faint, feeble, weak), glac (captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, grapple, seize, take, valley; hollow of the hand), fàs (accrue, become, empty, get, grow, increase, increasing, void, waste), caoch (blind, empty), còs (a cave, recess). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udolina, izdubljen (chiselled), ispijen (sunken), šupljina (cavity, lacuna), šupalj (cored). (various references)

Spanish

hueco (airy-fairy, alcove, cave, cavity, chimerical, concave, conceited, empty, fantastic, frivolous, gap, hole, of fantasy, pocket, recess, vain, void, well), vacuo (empty, hiatus, vacuous, void), hundido (sagging, sunken), hondonada (coulee, ravine), cavidad (antrum, cavity, hole). (various references)

Swedish

urholka (dig out, excavate, gouge, hollow out, wash away), tom (bladdery, blank, clear, empty, inane, vacant, vacuous, void), ihålighet, ihålig (cavernous, hollowed, shallow), grop (cavity, dimple, hole, pit, pocket). (various references)

Thai

โพรง (scoop), ที่เป็นโพรง, ซึ่งไม่จริงใจ (artificial). (various references)

Turkish

delik (aperture, bore, cavity, den, hole, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prick, prison, slot, stir, vent, ventage, venthole), çökmüş (broken, broken down, cavernous, collapsed, crooked, decadent, decrepit, depressed, down, down and out, shrunk, shrunken), çukur (cavity, concave, deep set, dimple, dip, excavation, gully, gully drain, gutter, hole, indent, pit, scoop, sink, sunk, trench), çukur açmak (dig a hole, hollow out, scoop out), aç (covetous, empty, esurient, greedy for, hungry, ravenous, starveling, unfed), bütünüyle (all, at full length, at large, bang, clear, completely, en bloc, entirely, flat, fully, in large, quite, totally, up to the hilt), boş (airy, barren, blank, bootless, captious, chimerical, desert, disengaged, empty, expressionless, fallacious, flat, for hire, free, frivolous, frothy, futile, gaseous, idle, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, invalid, leisure, meaningless, nugatory, null, pointless, puerile, punk, purposeless, spare, tenantless, thin, trumpery, unbuilt, unbuilt-on, unengaged, unfounded, unoccupied, unprofitable, unrecorded, unwritten-on, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, waste, windy, wishywashy, without any foundation, without foundation, yeasty), boş bir şekilde (idly), çökük (broken down, collapsed, graben, sunk, sunken), boşluktan gelen, yalan (deceit, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, fib, flam, gammon, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, plumper, prevarication, quack, sham, shave, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), delikli (cavernous, cribriform, having holes, peekaboo, perforate, perforated, porous, punched, spongy), kazmak (cave, cave in, dig, disinter, excavate, grub, hole, hollow out, mine, pick, pick up, sink, spud, trench), kof, oymak (bore, boy-scout troop, carve, cave, cave in, chase, chisel, clan, cut, engrave, etch, excavate, gouge, gouge out, grave, hollow out, incise, recess, scoop out, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, trace over, tribe), oyuk (alcove, bore, burrow, cavern, cavity, excavation, gouge, hallow, hole, niche, pit, pocket, sinus, socket), sahte (apocryphal, artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, colorable, counterfeit, double dealing, dud, Duff, dummy, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forged, fraudulent, imitated, make believe, mannered, mock, phoney, phony, pinchbeck, pious, pretended, pseudo-, put on, quack, queer, rose water, sham, shoddy, simulated, snide, spurious, studied, supposititious, telltale, token, unreal, untrue, untruthful), tamamen (absolutely, all, altogether, at large, bang, bang on, chock, clean, clear, completely, dead, definitely, downright, entirely, exactly, fair, fully, heart and soul, holo-, hopelessly, in the highest degree, in toto, neck and crop, off, out and out, outright, perfectly, plenty, precious, properly, quite, richly, roundly, sheer, simply, staring, stark, thoroughly, thro, through, through and through, thru, thru and thru, up to the hilt, utterly, well, whole, wholly, wide), boşluk (abysm, abyss, antrum, backlash, blank, blankness, cavity, chamber, chasm, clear, clearance, daylight, desideratum, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollowness, idleness, inanition, Lacuna, nothingness, nullity, separation, sinus, slack, slackness, space, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, voidness). (various references)

Turkmen 

puз (empty), pьrsvзцketlik, kцw (dell, glen). (various references)

Ukrainian

увігнутий (concave, incurvate, indented), цілком (absolutely, all, all in all, all of, all out, altogether, at all, bodily, broad, clean, clear, completely, duly, en bloc, entirely, fairly, full, fully, nicely, outright, perfectly, pure, purely, quite, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, wholly), вигинати (camber), видовбувати (cave, gouge, indent, mortice, mortise, scoop, spoon), низина (bottom, callow, lowland), заглиблення (absorption, dimple, dip, recess, recession, socket, wallow), запалий (cavernous, concave, sunken), порожнява, порожній (bare, empty, inane, unoccupied, vacuous), повністю (absolutely, all, all in all, chock, cold, completely, directly, entirely, fully, in the whole, in total, outright, radically, sheer, solid, throughout, totally, whole-hog, wholly), дупло. (various references)

Vietnamese 

hoàn toàn (all, all right, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, clean, completely, consummate, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, inch, out-and-out, outright, perfectly, profound, purely, quite, regular, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utter, utterly, wholly), trũng sâu hoắm ốm ốm, rỗng trống rỗng, lõm vào, không thành thật cuộc đua uể oải, chỗ rống chỗ trũng, chỗ lõm sâu hoắm thung lũng lòng chảo. (various references)

Welsh

hafn (gorge, ravine), tyno (tenon), plyg (couble, fold), pantiog (dimpled, sunken), pant (valley), pannwl (dimple), cau (barricade, block, close, concave, enclose, shut). (various references)

alvei, alveo, alveos, alveum, alveus, antra, antris, antro, antrum, cassa, cassam, cassis, casso, cassum, cassus, cavea, caveam, cavus, concavus, inane, inanem, inania, inanibus, inanis, inaniter, lacunas, specubus, specum, valle, vallem, valles, valli, vallibus, vallis, vallisque, vallium. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "hollow": holloware, hollowares, hollowed, hollower, hollowest, hollowing, hollowly, hollowness, hollownesses, hollows, hollowware, hollowwares. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hollow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hellow, helow, hllo, Hohlov, Holcot, Holgot, Hollom, Hollon, holloo, hollor, hollowy, Holon, holow, Holsoe, Hullaw, hulloa, ollow, shollow. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hollo.

-2 letters: howl, wool.

-3 letters: how, loo, low, oho, ooh, owl, who, woo.

-4 letters: ho, lo, oh, ow, wo.

+1 letter: hollows.

+2 letters: blowhole, hollowed, hollower, hollowly.

+3 letters: blowholes, holloware, hollowest, hollowing, whirlpool.

+4 letters: hollowares, hollowness, hollowware, whirlpools.

+5 letters: hollowwares, wholesomely.