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meaningless
3
adj 1: having no meaning or direction or purpose; "a meaningless
endeavor"; "a meaningless life"; "a verbose but
meaningless explanation" [syn: meaningless,
nonmeaningful] [ant: meaningful]
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aimless
0
adj 1: aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p), afloat(p),
aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless,
undirected]
2: continually changing especially as from one abode or
occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the
floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn:
aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant]
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armless
0
adj 1: having no arms; "the armless Venus de Milo" [ant:
armed]
-
backless
0
adj 1: lacking a back; "a stool is a backless and armless seat"
[ant: backed]
-
beardless
0
adj 1: having no beard [syn: beardless, whiskerless]
2: lacking hair on the face; "a smooth-faced boy of 14 years"
[syn: beardless, smooth-faced]
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blameless
0
adj 1: free of guilt; not subject to blame; "has lived a
blameless life"; "of irreproachable character"; "an
unimpeachable reputation" [syn: blameless,
inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable]
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bloodless
0
adj 1: destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless
carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden [syn:
bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous]
2: free from blood or bloodshed; "bloodless surgery"; "a
bloodless coup" [ant: bloody]
3: without vigor or zest or energy; "an insipid and bloodless
young man"
4: devoid of human emotion or feeling; "charts of bloodless
economic indicators"
5: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned
ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with
bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid
with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with
terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn: ashen, blanched,
bloodless, livid, white]
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boneless
0
adj 1: being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless"
[ant: boney, bony]
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bottomless
0
adj 1: extremely deep; "a bottomless pit"; "a bottomless lake"
2: having no bottom; "bottomless pajamas consisting simply of a
long top opening down the front" [ant: bottomed]
3: having no apparent limits or bounds; "a bottomless supply of
money"; "bottomless pockets"
4: unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such
nudeness; "bottomless dancers"; "a bottomless bar"
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boundless
0
adj 1: seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or
especially extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with
boundless energy"; "a limitless supply of money" [syn:
boundless, unbounded, limitless]
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brainless
0
adj 1: not using intelligence [syn: brainless, headless]
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breathless
0
adj 1: not breathing or able to breathe except with difficulty;
"breathless at thought of what I had done"; "breathless
from running"; "followed the match with breathless
interest" [syn: breathless, dyspneic, dyspnoeic,
dyspneal, dyspnoeal] [ant: breathing, eupneic,
eupnoeic]
2: tending to cause suspension of regular breathing; "a
breathless flight"; "breathtaking adventure" [syn:
breathless, breathtaking]
3: appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse;
"an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" [syn: breathless,
inanimate, pulseless]
-
brimless
0
adj 1: without a brim; "a brimless hat"
-
childless
0
adj 1: without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman
is rejected by her tribesmen"
-
chinless
0
adj 1: having a receding chin
-
cloudless
0
adj 1: free from clouds; "under a cloudless sky" [syn:
cloudless, unclouded]
-
cordless
0
adj 1: not having a cord; "cordless telephone"
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countless
0
adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches";
"countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons";
"innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas";
"myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless,
infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous,
myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable,
unnumbered, unnumerable]
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dauntless
0
adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious
explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers";
"intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave,
dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid,
unfearing]
-
deathless
0
adj 1: never dying; "his undying fame" [syn: deathless,
undying]
-
directionless
0
adj 1: aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p), afloat(p),
aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless,
undirected]
-
ductless
0
adj 1: not having a duct; "ductless glands"
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emotionless
0
adj 1: unmoved by feeling; "he kept his emotionless objectivity
and faith in the cause he served"; "this passionless girl
was like an icicle in the sunshine"-Margaret Deland [syn:
emotionless, passionless]
-
endless
0
adj 1: tiresomely long; seemingly without end; "endless
debates"; "an endless conversation"; "the wait seemed
eternal"; "eternal quarreling"; "an interminable sermon"
[syn: endless, eternal, interminable]
2: infinitely great in number; "endless waves"
3: having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the
dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless";
"sempiternal truth" [syn: dateless, endless,
sempiternal]
4: having the ends united so as to form a continuous whole; "an
endless chain"
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expressionless
0
adj 1: deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his
face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"
[syn: deadpan, expressionless, impassive, poker-
faced, unexpressive]
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faithless
0
adj 1: having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor;
"the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous
insurrectionist" [syn: faithless, traitorous,
unfaithful, treasonable, treasonous]
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faultless
0
adj 1: without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks
impeccable French"; "timing and technique were
immaculate"; "an immaculate record" [syn: faultless,
immaculate, impeccable]
-
feckless
0
adj 1: not fit to assume responsibility
2: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to
repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" [syn:
feckless, inept]
-
formless
0
adj 1: having no definite form or distinct shape; "amorphous
clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles";
"a shapeless mass of protoplasm" [syn: amorphous,
formless, shapeless]
2: having no physical form; "belief in a world filled
with...formless but often malevolent beings"
-
frictionless
0
adj 1: lacking all friction; "a perpetual motion machine would
have to be frictionless"
-
friendless
0
adj 1: excluded from a society [syn: friendless, outcast]
-
godless
0
adj 1: not revering god [syn: godless, irreverent]
-
gormless
0
adj 1: (British informal) lacking intelligence and vitality
[syn: gaumless, gormless]
-
groundless
0
adj 1: without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip";
"the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears";
"unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy" [syn:
baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded,
unwarranted, wild]
-
guiltless
0
adj 1: free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the
principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn:
innocent, guiltless, clean-handed] [ant: guilty]
-
handless
0
adj 1: without a hand or hands; "a handless war veteran" [ant:
handed]
2: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands;
"a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed
governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle
of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
[syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted,
ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]
-
harmless
0
adj 1: not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless
bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless" [ant: harmful]
-
headless
0
adj 1: not having a head or formed without a head ; "the
headless horseman"; "brads are headless nails" [ant:
headed]
2: not using intelligence [syn: brainless, headless]
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heedless
0
adj 1: marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have
always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals;
we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D.
Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's
crying" [syn: heedless, unheeding] [ant: attentive,
heedful, paying attention, thoughtful]
2: characterized by careless unconcern; "the heedless generosity
and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large
fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public
funds" [syn: heedless, reckless]
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homeless
0
adj 1: without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons"
[syn: homeless, stateless]
2: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security;
"made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one
country to another"- James Stern [syn: dispossessed,
homeless, roofless]
n 1: someone unfortunate without housing; "a homeless was found
murdered in Central Park" [syn: homeless, homeless
person]
2: poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in;
"the homeless became a problem in the large cities"
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hornless
0
adj 1: having no horns; "hornless cattle" [ant: horned]
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irregardless
0
adv 1: regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless
sometimes used humorously
-
landless
0
adj 1: owning no land; "the landless peasantry" [ant: landed]
-
leadless
0
adj 1: not treated with lead; "unleaded gasoline" [syn:
unleaded, leadless] [ant: leaded]
-
leafless
0
adj 1: having no leaves [ant: leafy]
-
lidless
0
adj 1: not having or covered with a lid or lids; "a lidless
container" [ant: lidded]
2: having no lid; "a lidless container"
3: always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of
the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson [syn: lidless,
sleepless]
-
lifeless
0
adj 1: deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body"
[syn: lifeless, exanimate]
2: destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings;
"after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed
hollowly"
3: lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being
dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she
arrived"
4: not having the capacity to support life; "a lifeless planet"
-
limbless
0
adj 1: having no limbs; "a snake is a limbless reptile" [ant:
limbed]
-
listless
0
adj 1: lacking zest or vivacity; "he was listless and bored"
2: marked by low spirits; showing no enthusiasm; "a dispirited
and divided Party"; "reacted to the crisis with listless
resignation" [syn: dispirited, listless]
-
loveless
0
adj 1: without love; "a loveless marriage"
2: receiving no love; "a loveless childhood"
-
luckless
0
adj 1: having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an
unlucky date" [syn: unlucky, luckless] [ant: lucky]
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mindless
0
adj 1: lacking the thinking capacity characteristic of a
conscious being; "the shrieking of the mindless wind"
2: requiring little mental effort; "mindless tasks"
3: not mindful or attentive; "while thus unmindful of his steps
he stumbled"- G.B.Shaw [syn: unmindful, forgetful,
mindless] [ant: aware, mindful]
4: devoid of intelligence [syn: asinine, fatuous, inane,
mindless, vacuous]
5: not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence";
"reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn: mindless,
reasonless, senseless]
-
moonless
0
adj 1: without a moon or a visible moon; "the dark moonless
night"; "a moonless planet" [ant: moonlit, moony]
-
motionless
0
adj 1: not in physical motion; "the inertia of an object at
rest" [syn: inactive, motionless, static, still]
-
nameless
0
adj 1: being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by
an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless
owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: nameless,
unidentified, unknown, unnamed]
-
necklace
0
n 1: jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems)
worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women)
-
needless
0
adj 1: unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was
burned with needless loss of life" [syn: gratuitous,
needless, uncalled-for]
-
nerveless
0
adj 1: marked by calm self-control (especially in trying
circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool";
"stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless
winner in the history of the tournament" [syn: cool,
coolheaded, nerveless]
2: lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy
and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: feeble,
nerveless]
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painless
0
adj 1: requiring little hard work or exertion; "a painless
solution to the problem"
2: not causing physical or psychological pain; "painless
dentistry" [ant: painful]
-
passionless
0
adj 1: not passionate; "passionless observation of human nature"
[ant: passionate]
2: unmoved by feeling; "he kept his emotionless objectivity and
faith in the cause he served"; "this passionless girl was
like an icicle in the sunshine"-Margaret Deland [syn:
emotionless, passionless]
-
pointless
0
adj 1: not having a point especially a sharp point; "my pencils
are all pointless" [syn: pointless, unpointed] [ant:
pointed]
2: serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being;
"otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a
pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless";
"senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless,
purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted]
-
rainless
0
adj 1: lacking rain; "a rainless month"; "rainless skies"
-
reasonless
0
adj 1: not marked by the use of reason; "mindless violence";
"reasonless hostility"; "a senseless act" [syn:
mindless, reasonless, senseless]
2: not endowed with the capacity to reason; "a reasonless brute"
3: having no justifying cause or reason; "a senseless, causeless
murder"; "a causeless war that never had an aim"; "an
apparently arbitrary and reasonless change" [syn:
causeless, reasonless]
-
reckless
0
adj 1: marked by defiant disregard for danger or consequences;
"foolhardy enough to try to seize the gun from the
hijacker"; "became the fiercest and most reckless of
partisans"-Macaulay; "a reckless driver"; "a rash attempt
to climb Mount Everest" [syn: foolhardy, heady,
rash, reckless]
2: characterized by careless unconcern; "the heedless generosity
and the spasmodic extravagance of persons used to large
fortunes"- Edith Wharton; "reckless squandering of public
funds" [syn: heedless, reckless]
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regardless
0
adv 1: in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks; "he
carried on regardless of the difficulties" [syn:
regardless, irrespective, disregardless, no
matter, disregarding]
adj 1: (usually followed by `of') without due thought or
consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "crushing
the blooms with regardless tread" [syn: careless(p),
regardless]
-
relentless
0
adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
"grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty";
"relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of
parenthood" [syn: grim, inexorable, relentless,
stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
2: never-ceasing; "the relentless beat of the drums" [syn:
persistent, relentless, unrelenting]
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resistless
0
adj 1: impossible to resist; overpowering; "irresistible (or
resistless) impulses"; "what happens when an irresistible
force meets an immovable object?" [syn: irresistible,
resistless] [ant: resistible]
2: offering no resistance; "resistless hostages"; "No other
colony showed such supine, selfish helplessness in allowing
her own border citizens to be mercilessly harried"- Theodore
Roosevelt [syn: resistless, supine, unresisting]
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restless
0
adj 1: worried and uneasy [syn: restless, ungratified,
unsatisfied]
2: ceaselessly in motion; "the restless sea"; "the restless
wind"
3: lacking or not affording physical or mental rest; "a restless
night"; "she fell into an uneasy sleep" [syn: restless,
uneasy] [ant: relaxing, reposeful, restful]
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rimless
0
adj 1: lacking a rim or frame; "rimless glasses" [ant: rimmed]
-
roofless
0
adj 1: not having a roof; "the hurricane left hundreds of house
roofless" [ant: roofed]
2: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security;
"made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one
country to another"- James Stern [syn: dispossessed,
homeless, roofless]
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scentless
0
adj 1: lacking the sense of smell [ant: scented]
2: emitting or holding no odor; "scentless wisps of straw"; "a
scentless stretch of rocky ground"
-
seamless
0
adj 1: not having or joined by a seam or seams; "seamless
stockings" [ant: seamed]
2: smooth, especially of skin; "his cheeks were unlined"; "his
unseamed face" [syn: seamless, unlined, unseamed]
3: perfectly consistent and coherent; "the novel's seamless
plot"
-
seedless
0
adj 1: lacking seeds; "seedless grapefruit" [ant: seedy]
-
selfless
0
adj 1: showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others [syn:
altruistic, selfless] [ant: egocentric, egoistic,
egoistical, self-centered, self-centred]
-
shameless
0
adj 1: feeling no shame; "a shameless imposter"; "an unblushing
apologist for fascism" [syn: shameless, unblushing]
-
shiftless
0
adj 1: lacking or characterized by lack of ambition or
initiative; lazy; "a shiftless student"; "studied in a
shiftless way"
-
sinless
0
adj 1: free from sin [syn: impeccant, innocent, sinless]
-
skinless
0
adj 1: having no skin [ant: skinned]
-
sleeveless
0
adj 1: having no sleeves; "sleeveless summer dresses" [ant:
sleeved]
2: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years
after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain
attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile,
sleeveless, vain]
-
smokeless
0
adj 1: emitting or containing little or no smoke; "smokeless
factory stacks"; "smokeless fuel"; "a smokeless
environment" [ant: smoky]
-
soundless
0
adj 1: marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless
footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still" [syn:
silent, soundless, still]
-
spineless
0
adj 1: weak in willpower, courage or vitality [syn: namby-
pamby, gutless, spineless, wishy-washy]
2: lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of
invertebrate animals" [syn: invertebrate, spineless]
[ant: vertebrate]
3: lacking spiny processes; "spineless fins" [ant: spinous,
spiny]
4: lacking thorns [syn: thornless, spineless]
-
stainless
0
adj 1: (of reputation) free from blemishes; "his unsullied
name"; "an untarnished reputation" [syn: stainless,
unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished]
n 1: steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to
corrosion [syn: stainless steel, stainless, chromium
steel]
-
sunless
0
adj 1: filled or abounding with clouds [syn: cloud-covered,
clouded, overcast, sunless]
-
tactless
0
adj 1: lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and
considerate in dealing with others; "in the circumstances
it was tactless to ask her age" [syn: tactless,
untactful] [ant: tactful]
2: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an
inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those
disagreeable" [syn: inept, tactless]
-
tasteless
0
adj 1: lacking flavor [ant: tasty]
2: lacking aesthetic or social taste [ant: tasteful]
-
tensionless
0
adj 1: free from tension
-
thankless
0
adj 1: not feeling or showing gratitude; "ungrateful heirs";
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a
thankless child!"- Shakespeare [syn: ungrateful,
thankless, unthankful] [ant: grateful, thankful]
2: not likely to be rewarded; "grading papers is a thankless
task" [syn: thankless, unappreciated, ungratifying]
-
thriftless
0
adj 1: careless of the future
-
timeless
0
adj 1: unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as
Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty" [syn: dateless,
timeless]
-
toneless
0
adj 1: lacking in tone or expression; "his toneless mechanical
voice" [ant: toned]
-
trackless
0
adj 1: having no tracks; "a trackless trolley"; "the trackless
snowy meadow" [ant: tracked]
2: lacking pathways; "trackless wilderness"; "roadless areas"
[syn: pathless, roadless, trackless, untracked,
untrod, untrodden]
-
tuneless
0
adj 1: not having a musical sound or pleasing tune [syn:
tuneless, untuneful, unmelodious] [ant:
melodious, tuneful]
-
windlass
0
n 1: lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned
by a crank on which a cable or rope winds [syn: winch,
windlass]
-
windless
0
adj 1: without or almost without wind; "he prefers windless days
for playing golf"
-
wingless
0
adj 1: lacking wings [ant: winged]
-
winless
0
adj 1: having no wins; "the team had a very disappointing
winless season"
-
wordless
0
adj 1: expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent
curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the
words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief";
"choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe
[syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless]
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briefless
0
adj 1: (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients
-
stemless
0
adj 1: not having a stem; "stemless glassware" [ant: stemmed]
2: (of plants) having no apparent stem above ground [syn:
acaulescent, stemless] [ant: caulescent, cauline,
stemmed]