What is the word for absence of something?
What is the word used to refer to the absence of something? Let's say that I have a water bottle and, I drink all of the water. I think the word should be an adjective or maybe a past-participle verb in the form of:
The water is ______.
I know I can use 'empty' but it is used for the container.
The water bottle is empty.
This is also a valid sentence, but the subject is not the water.
I ran out of water.
If this could help, I'm looking for the translation of the word habis in Bahasa Indonesia.
Here's the definition. (Translated)
- v nothing is left (because it's used, shared, eaten, etc.); doesn't have a remainder
Is there a word for this? If not, is there a compound word or a phrase?
Edited after an answer was given: It's not gone/missing because it implies that I have to search for it (It's gone). I know where it went (I drink it).
Solution 1:
As is often the case, the poster has led himself into a trap by insisting in expressing an idea using a particular grammatical construction — here a predicative adjective. As this is not a quiz site, but a site concerned with the English language where there is no reason to confine oneself in this way, I suggest something, according to context, on the lines of:
There is no more water.
We have drunk all the water.
We have used all the water.
or even
The well is dry.
Although I cannot be certain, I doubt whether the word that is being sought really exists. However, if one really must have a sentence with a predicative adjective:
The water is exhausted.
might serve. There are certainly examples of this usage if you run a Google ngram
There are two problems I see with this. First, it is technical rather than everyday language (where ‘exhausted’ is generally a synonym for ‘tired’). Second, it could be considered a cheat: it is the supply of water that is actually exhausted. But most people would consider this pedantic (or splitting hairs, in everyday language).