Devoid vs Abundant - What's the difference?
devoid | abundant |
empty; having none of; completely without
Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing.
* [W]ith their magical words they [poets] bring forth to our eyesight the abundant images and beauties of creation. — Leigh Hunt, On the Realities of Imagination
Richly supplied; wealthy; possessing in great quantity.
* Abundant in goodness and truth. — Exodus, 34:6
(mathematics) Being an abundant number, i.e. less than the sum of all of its divisors except itself.
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As adjectives the difference between devoid and abundant
is that devoid is empty; having none of; completely without while abundant is fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing .As a verb devoid
is (obsolete) to empty out; to remove.devoid
English
Adjective
(-)- I went searching for a knife, but the kitchen was devoid of anything sharper than a spoon.