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de·void  (d-void)
adj.
Completely lacking; destitute or empty: a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness.

[Middle English, past participle of devoiden, to remove, eliminate, from Old French desvoidier : des-, de- + voidier, to empty (from voide, empty; see void).]

devoid [dɪˈvɔɪd]
adj
(postpositive; foll by of) destitute or void (of); free (from)
[originally past participle of devoid (vb) to remove, from Old French devoidier, from de- de- + voider to void]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.devoid - completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
nonexistent - not having existence or being or actuality; "chimeras are nonexistent"

devoid
adjective (with of) lacking in, without, free from, wanting in, sans (archaic), bereft of, empty of, deficient in, denuded of, barren of I have never looked on a face so devoid of feeling.
Translations
devoid [dɪˈvɔɪd] ADJ devoid ofdesprovisto de

devoid [dɪˈvɔɪd] adj
devoid of → dépourvu(e) de, dénué(e) de

devoid
adj devoid ofbar +gen, → ohne

devoid [dɪˈvɔɪd] adj devoid ofprivo/a di, senza
devoid [dɪˈvɔɪd] adj devoid ofprivo/a di, senza

devoid
adj devoid [diˈvoid]
(withof) free from or lacking That is devoid of any meaning. ontbloot, ontdaan خالٍ مِن лишен postrádající, zbavený blottet for; fri for ohne, befreit κενός, στερούμενος desprovisto de -tu, ilma ... -ta خالی از؛ عاری از vailla dépourvu (de) חָסַר - रहित lišen mentes vmitől kosong, tidak ada gjörsneyddur privo, sprovvisto 欠けている (~이) 없는, 빠진 neturintis, be brīvs []; bez tanpa verstoken van blottet (for) pozbawiony desprovido lipsit (de) лишённый чего-л. bez (čoho) brez (česa) lišen blottad (tom) på, saknande, utan ซึ่งขาดแคลน; ปราศจากบางอย่างโดยสิ้นเชิง yoksun, ...sız 缺乏,沒有 позбавлений чого; вільний від чого کسی شی سے محروم trống rỗng


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The Gnat, having sounded his horn, fastened himself upon the Lion and stung him on the nostrils and the parts of the face devoid of hair.
Yet his style, for the most part devoid alike of artifice and art, almost baldly simple and direct, seems hardly compatible with the disingenuousness of a merely literary intention; one would call it the manner of one more concerned for the fruits of research than for the flowers of expression.
Polygnotus delineates character well: the style of Zeuxis is devoid of ethical quality.
 
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