- (postpositive) followed by of:
destitute or void (of); free (from)
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de•void /dɪˈvɔɪd/USA pronunciation
adj. [be + ~ + of]
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025- not possessing;
totally lacking;
empty of:The judge was devoid of any sympathy when I explained my case.
de•void
(di void′),USA pronunciation adj.
v.t.
- not possessing, untouched by, void, or destitute (usually fol. by of ).
v.t.
- to deplete or strip of some quality or substance:imprisonment that devoids a person of humanity.
- Anglo-French, for Old French desvuidier to empty out, equivalent. to des- dis-1 + vuidier to empty, void
- Middle English, origin, originally past participle 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged lacking, wanting, destitute, bereft, barren.
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'devoid' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
ABO system
- airless
- arid
- banal
- barren
- base
- bland
- blank
- brute
- caritive
- clear-air turbulence
- clearwing
- dead
- desert
- destitute
- dispassionate
- empty
- glabrous
- grizzle
- guiltless
- humbug
- impersonal
- innocent
- isolated point
- monochrome
- precisionism
- songless
- stark
- subfusc
- sweet
- tasteless
- thoughtless
- unconscious
- unfeeling
- unjaundiced
- unmeaning
- unwit
- vacant
- vacuum
- vegetation
- void
- waterless