Synonyms for devoid
dɪˈvɔɪdde·void

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1. devoid

   Synonyms:
   void, wanting, destitute, unendowed, unprovided

   Antonyms:
   furnished, supplied, replete, provided, gifted

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1. barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocentadjective

   completely wanting or lacking

   "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"

   Synonyms:
   guiltless, gratis(p), ingenuous, innocuous, indigent, needy, impeccant, complimentary, destitute, loose, costless, liberal, free, stark, unacquainted(p), desolate, barren, gratuitous, clean-handed, impoverished, detached, spare, innocent(p), innocent, poverty-stricken, sinless, bleak, bare, necessitous

   Antonyms:
   existing, existent

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1. devoidadjective

   Synonyms:
   vacant, empty, destitute, void

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1. List of paraphrases for "devoid":

   bereft, free, empty

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1. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.

2. Renae A. Sauter:

   Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and immediately all my biggest fears start running through my mind. I wonder if my fears will one day be my new reality. The fears seem so real. I struggle to shift my focus. Then slowly I realize that my fears are devoid of any love and only love is real.

3. Michael McCaul:

   I think the secretary has been devoid of reality this whole time since the decision was made in May. I think it's an unmitigated disaster of epic proportions.

4. Ed Warner:

   I cannot lead an organization whose three members are so unwilling to work collectively, so devoid of ambition for the game, so full of disdain for Great Britain players and so apparently lacking in professional integrity.

5. Conan Doyle:

   The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.