ghetto vs hollow

ghetto

adj
  • Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude. 

  • Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States. 

  • Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States. 

  • Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general. 

verb
  • To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto. 

noun
  • An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) 

  • An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated. 

  • An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race. 

  • An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest. 

hollow

adj
  • Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless. 

  • Concave; gaunt; sunken. 

  • Insincere, devoid of validity; specious. 

  • Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched. 

  • Pertaining to hollow body position 

  • Having an empty space or cavity inside. 

noun
  • A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial. 

  • A sunken area. 

  • A small valley between mountains. 

  • A feeling of emptiness. 

verb
  • To call or urge by shouting; to hollo. 

  • to make a hole in something; to excavate 

adv
  • Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow. 

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