Qualities
Synonyms for hollow
Synonyms for hollow: empty and holler. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for hollow
- emptyadjective, in the sense "devoid of significance or force"
- hollernoun, in the sense "a small valley between mountains"
Two senses of hollow, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
devoid of significance or force
A hollow victory.
The true synonym
empty
Same sentence, swapped: A empty victory.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- artificial
- sunk
- bass
a small valley between mountains
He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians.
The true synonym
holler
Same sentence, swapped: He built himself a cabin in a holler high up in the Appalachians.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- nullah
- cold
- check
Where hollow turns up in the game
hollow is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in five other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 5 puzzles where hollow is the trap
- gladenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is clearing, in the sense "an open, grassy space within a forest", and hollow is one of the three tiles that lose.
- gnarledadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is twisted, in the sense "knotted, rough, and twisted, especially from age", and hollow is on the board beside it.
- gapnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is break, in the sense "an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity", so hollow is there to be ruled out.
- pocketnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sack, in the sense "an enclosed space", so hollow is there to be ruled out.
Play hollow
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hollow reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
hollow is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 5. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.