emptiest
- 1Superlative of empty.
By midnight the downtown streets were at their emptiest.
He chose the emptiest car on the train so he could spread out his work.
Note
The spelling follows the regular pattern for two-syllable adjectives ending in -y: the y becomes i before -est, and the inflected form is the natural choice over most empty. It carries the figurative senses as readily as the literal ones. The emptiest promises are words without sincerity, and the emptiest victories are ones that cannot satisfy, just as the emptiest room holds nothing at all.
Of all his speeches, that was the emptiest: fine phrases and no commitments.
It was the emptiest kind of praise, offered without a glance at the work.
emptiest is a form of empty
empty, adjective: Containing nothing or nobody; having none of something, often followed by 'of', as in streets empty of traffic. Full entry
- Spelling
- empty → emptiest: change y to i, add -est
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