Blank

English

Adjective

Blank (comparative Blanker or more Blank, superlative Blankest or most Blank)

1. Without color; lacking characteristics which give variety.
2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
3. Without expression.

Noun

Blank (plural Blanks)

1. A bullet that doesn't harm; a cartridge inserted into a gun that fires no projectile.
2. A void space on a paper.
3. A space to be filled in on a form or template.
4. (archaic) A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.
5. (engineering) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
6. (dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the double blank"; the six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
7. The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.

Verb

Blank (third-person singular simple present Blanks, present participle Blanking, simple past and past participle Blanked)

1. (transitive) To make void; to erase.
2. (transitive, slang) To ignore.
3. (transitive) To prevent from scoring, as in a sporting event.
4. (intransitive) To become blank.

Synonyms for Blank

• (bullet that doesn't harm): blank cartridge, blank bullet
• bare, void, vacant, unfilled, empty, barren.

Antonyms for Blank

occupied, filled.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æŋk