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DEVOID definition: 1. to lack or be without something that is necessary or usual: 2. to lack or be without something…. Learn more.
The meaning of DEVOID is being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment —used with of. How to use devoid in a sentence.
DEVOID meaning: 1. to lack or be without something that is necessary or usual: 2. to lack or be without something…. Learn more.
If you say that someone or something is devoid of a quality or thing, you are emphasizing that they have none of it. [formal, emphasis] I have never looked on a face that was so devoid of feeling. [ + of] The skies are virtually devoid of birdlife.
devoid of something completely without something. The letter was devoid of warmth and feeling. The land is almost devoid of vegetation.
Devoid definition: not possessing, untouched by, void, or destitute (usually followed by of).. See examples of DEVOID used in a sentence.
My teacher is devoid of pity. My cookie jar is devoid of cookies." These examples are devoid of anything not totally depressing! Definitions of devoid. adjective. completely wanting or lacking. “the sentence was devoid of meaning”. synonyms: barren, destitute, free, innocent. nonexistent.
adjective. uk / dɪˈvɔɪd / us. devoid of sth formal. Add to word list. Add to word list. completely without a quality: His voice was devoid of emotion. (Definition of devoid from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Define devoid. devoid synonyms, devoid pronunciation, devoid translation, English dictionary definition of devoid. adj. Completely lacking; destitute or empty: a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness.
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. lacking, wanting, destitute, bereft, barren.
