Usually means: Returning without anything to show.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word empty-handed:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. empty-handed: Merriam-Webster
  2. empty-handed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. empty-handed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. empty-handed, empty-handed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. empty-handed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Empty-Handed, Empty-handed, empty-handed: Wordnik
  7. empty-handed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. empty-handed: Wiktionary
  9. empty-handed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. empty-handed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. empty-handed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. empty-handed: Dictionary.com
  13. empty-handed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. empty-handed: Rhymezone
  15. empty-handed: FreeDictionary.org
  16. empty-handed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. empty-handed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. empty-handed: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. empty-handed: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of emptyhanded [With nothing in one's hands.]

Similar:
empty, unsuccessful, unrewarded, bare-handed, free-handed, onehanded, brokenhanded, dryhanded, back-handed, single handed, more...

Opposite:
full-handed, loaded, carrying something, not empty



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Similar:
empty, unsuccessful, unrewarded, bare-handed, free-handed, onehanded, brokenhanded, dryhanded, back-handed, single handed, more...

Opposite:
full-handed, loaded, carrying something, not empty



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