hollow | Definition of hollow

hollow

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hollow

1 a sunken area forming a separate space

made a little hollow in her mound of mashed potatoes and filled it with gravy

Synonyms of hollow

cavity, concavity, dent, depression, dint, hole, indentation, indenture, pit, recess

Words Related to hollow

burrow, cave, cavern, ditch, excavation, furrow, groove, gutter, trench, trough

basin, bowl, valley

alcove, cleft, niche, nook, opening, recess, socket

alveolus, dimple, gouge, impression, imprint, notch, pocket

borehole, chuckhole, crater, posthole, pothole, sinkhole, wallow, water hole, well

abyss, chasm, gulf, vacuity, vacuum, void

Near Antonyms of hollow

hill, mound, rise

bump, bunch, hump, lump, pimple, swell, swelling, tumor

Antonyms of hollow

bulge, camber, convexity, jut, projection, protrusion, protuberance

2 an area of lowland between hills or mountains

a quaint village nestled in a hollow among green hills

Synonyms of hollow

dale, dene [British], vale, valley

Words Related to hollow

canyon (also cañon), combe (also coombe) [British], dell, depression, dingle, glen, gorge, gulch, gully (also gulley), kloof [South African], ravine, rift valley

Near Antonyms of hollow

alp, mount, mountain, peak

height, mountaintop, pinnacle, summit

plateau, tableland