sleeveless
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 10
/ˈsliːvlɪs/
Definition of sleeveless
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Of a garment, having no sleeves.
“She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Of a garment, having no sleeves.
“She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.”
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(not-comparable, obsolete)Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
“a sleeveless errand”
“might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.”
“1738-1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated The vexation of a sleeveless errand.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English slevelees, sleveles, from Old English slīeflēas (“sleeveless”), equivalent to sleeve + -less.
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