虚しい
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Meanings
- empty, void, vacant
- vain, fruitless, futile, ineffective
- lifeless
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After spending years writing my thesis only to have it rejected, I was left feeling empty.
No matter how hard I try, if I see no results, it starts to feel futile.
Her attempts at persuasion proved fruitless, as the other person refused to listen at all.
Having lost the wife I spent so many years with, every day I feel a deep void in this large house.
Even the heroic struggle faded away in vain, with no one to pass down its story.
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