Hollow vs False - What's the difference?
hollow | false | Synonyms |
(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.
(of a sound) Distant]], eerie; echoing, [[reverberate, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.
(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.
(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.
A small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.
* Prior
* Tennyson
A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.
(US) A sunken area.
(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.
To urge or call by shouting; to hollo.
* Sir Walter Scott
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
Hollow is a synonym of false.
As adjectives the difference between hollow and false
is that hollow is (of something solid) having an empty space or cavity inside while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.As an adverb hollow
is (colloquial) completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.As a noun hollow
is a small valley between mountains; a low spot surrounded by elevations.As a verb hollow
is to make a hole in something; to excavate (transitive) or hollow can be to urge or call by shouting; to hollo.As an interjection hollow
is .hollow
English
Alternative forms
* hollerEtymology 1
(etyl) holw, holh, from (etyl) . More at cave.Adjective
(er)- a hollow''' tree; a '''hollow sphere
- a hollow moan
- (Dryden)
- a hollow victory
- a hollow promise
- With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
Derived terms
* hollow legAdverb
(-)Etymology 2
(etyl) holow, earlier holgh, from (etyl) . See above.Noun
(en noun)- Forests grew upon the barren hollows .
- I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
- He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.
- the hollow of the hand or of a tree
- a hollow in the pit of one's stomach
Etymology 3
Compare holler.Verb
(en verb)- He has hollowed the hounds.
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Adjective
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