English-Portuguese translations for hollow

• vazio
  Sem um compromisso nesse sentido, um espaço aéreo único seria um invólucro vazio, sem qualquer esperança de sucesso. Without the commitment to do this, a single airspace would be a hollow shell, with no hope of success.
• caivanca
• depressão
• oco
  Neste momento, o desenvolvimento sustentável soa a oco. Sustainable development now sounds hollow.
  Tudo o resto fará com que as exigências dos governos relativas à integração pareçam discursos ocos. Anything else would make the governments' calls for integration sound hollow.
  O sentido da proporção e da realidade não deve ser comprometido por teóricos ocos e ideólogos desenraizados.Hollow theories and vague ideologies must not be allowed to distort our sense of moderation and reality.
• vão

Definition of hollow

• A small valley between mountains
• A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial
• A sunken area
• to make a hole in something; to excavate
• Having an empty space or cavity inside
• Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched
• Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless
• Insincere, devoid of validity; specious
• Concave; gaunt; sunken
• Pertaining to hollow body position
• Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow
• To call#Verb|call or urge#Verb|urge by shout#Verb|shouting; to hollo#Verb|hollo

Examples

• 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 ones stomach
• a hollow tree; a hollow sphere
• He let out a hollow moan
• a hollow victory
• a hollow promise

Related words

• holloway
• hollowness
• hollowly
• hollow-eyed
• hollow-hearted
• Hollowell
• hollow-way
• hollow cave
• hollow core slab