- devoid
- devoid, void, destitute are comparable when they are followed by of and mean showing entire want or lack.Devoid stresses the absence or the nonpossession of a particular quality, character," or tendency{
I was not devoid of capacity or application— Gibbon
}{they will steal from you before your very face, so devoid are they of all shame— Hudson
}{a human being devoid of hope is the most terrible object in the world— Heiser
}Void (see also EMPTY 1) usually implies freedom from the slightest trace, vestige, tinge, or taint of something{a man void of honor
}{a conscience void of offence— Acts 24:16
}{a drama which, with all its preoccupation with sex, is really void of sexual interest— Shaw
}Destitute stresses deprivation or privation; it therefore is seldom used with reference to what is evil or undesirable{a domestic life destitute of any hallowing charm— George Eliot
}{men of genius . . . wholly destitute of any proper sense of form— J. R. Lowell
}{no woman ... so totally destitute of the sentiment of religion— J. R. Green
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New Dictionary of Synonyms. 2014.