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Antonyms for nerveless


Grammar : Adj
Spell : nurv-lis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɜrv lɪs



Definition of nerveless

  • adj calm, cool
  • adj scared to death
Example sentences :
  • To all outward seeming, nerveless, emotionless, an abject creature.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • His nerveless cowardice had all at once become unbelievable to himself.
  • Extract from : « The Market-Place » by Harold Frederic
  • Pachmann, white with pain, was nursing a numbed and nerveless hand.
  • Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson
  • He took the ticket and the clipping from Pinny's nerveless fingers and compared them.
  • Extract from : « The Trimming of Goosie » by James Hopper
  • The newspaper lay on the floor, where it had fallen from her white, nerveless fingers.
  • Extract from : « The White Lie » by William Le Queux
  • The reaction from his long-sustained rage had left him dazed and nerveless.
  • Extract from : « Out of the Depths » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • He dropped the nozzle from his nerveless hands—and such hands, too!
  • Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
  • If we are idle and shiftless by choice, we shall be nerveless and powerless by necessity.
  • Extract from : « How to Succeed » by Orison Swett Marden
  • The second glume is membranous, 1- to 5-nerved or nerveless.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses » by Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
  • The third glume is hyaline, empty, nerveless and without a palea.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses » by Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

Synonyms for nerveless

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