Devoid (Adjective)
Meaning
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The landscape was devoid of any signs of life after the devastating drought.
- Her speech was devoid of passion and conviction, failing to inspire the audience.
- The new policy was devoid of any real substance, merely a rehashing of old ideas.
- The city's streets were devoid of pedestrians on the cold winter morning.
- The plot of the movie was devoid of originality, relying on tired clichés and overused tropes.