Synonyms for devoid

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dih-void

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈvɔɪd

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Définition of devoid

Origin : c.1400, shortening of devoided, past participle of obsolete verb devoiden "to remove, void, vacate" (c.1300), from Old French desvuidier (12c., Modern French dévider) "to empty out, flush game from, unwind, let loose (an arrow)," from des- "out, away" + voider "to empty," from voide "empty" (see void (adj.)).

adj empty, wanting

Example sentences :

They are thieves—they will steal from you before your very face, so devoid are they of all shame.
Extract from : « Green Mansions » by W. H. Hudson

No good could come of an alliance with a man so devoid of all feelings of honour or of gratitude.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

When sober, he was accessible, conversable, and devoid of pride.
Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson

Or is the life of mind sufficient, if devoid of any particle of pleasure?
Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato

Philosophy had become extravagant, eclectic, abstract, devoid of any real content.
Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato

But neither can thought or mind be devoid of some principle of rest or stability.
Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato

I held him to be a shallow, unlettered clown, devoid of any finer feelings.
Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini

Paleyan somewhat, perhaps Socratic, not devoid of common sense.
Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon

But where yarn is abundant, the soil will be light and devoid of timber.
Extract from : « The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians » by Xenophon

The mountains were devoid of vegetation, bleak and bare and black.
Extract from : « The Coyote » by James Roberts

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