Adjective

(er)

Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.

an empty''' purse; an '''empty''' jug; an '''empty stomach

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(computing, programming) Containing no elements (as of a string or array), opposed to being null (having no valid value).

(obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of .

* Milton

that fair female troop empty of all good

* Shakespeare

I shall find you empty of that fault.

Having nothing to carry; unburdened.

* Shakespeare

an empty messenger

* Bible, Exodus iii. 21

When ye go ye shall not go empty .

Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.

empty words, or threats

* Cibber

Words are but empty thanks.

Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.

empty pleasures

* Alexander Pope

pleas'd in the silent shade with empty praise

Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.

empty dreams

(obsolete) Producing nothing; unfruitful; said of a plant or tree.

an empty vine

* Bible, Genesis xli. 27

seven empty ears blasted with the east wind

Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.

empty''' brains; an '''empty coxcomb

* Shakespeare

that in civility thou seem'st so empty

Adjective

(en adjective)

Fragmented, in separate pieces.

# Fractured; having the bone in pieces.

My arm is broken !

the ground was littered with broken bones

# (label) Split or ruptured.

A dog bit my leg and now the skin is broken .

# Dashed, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

# (label) Interrupted; not continuous.

#* (rfdate), , White Fang :

Then the circle would lie down again, and here and there a wolf would resume its broken nap.

# Five-eighths to seven-eighths obscured by clouds; incompletely covered by clouds.

Tomorrow: broken skies.

Breeched; violated; not kept.

broken''' promises of neutrality'', '''''broken''' vows'', ''the '''broken covenant

Non-functional; not functioning properly.

I think my doorbell broken .

# Disconnected, no longer open or carrying traffic.

# Badly designed or implemented.

This is the most broken application I've seen in a long time.

# Grammatically non-standard, especially as a result of being a non-native speaker.

# Not having gone in the way intended; saddening.

Oh man! That is just broken !

Completely defeated and dispirited; shattered; destroyed.

The bankruptcy and divorce, together with the death of his son, left him completely broken .

Having no money; bankrupt, broke.

(en)

(label) Uneven.

* 2005 , Will Cook, Until Darkness Disappears , page 54:

All that day they rode into broken land. The prairie with its grass and rolling hills was behind them, and they entered a sparse, dry, rocky country, full of draws and short cañons and ominous buttresses.

Overpowered; overly powerful; too powerful.