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Grammar : Adj
Spell : sap-lis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsæp lɪs



Definition of sapless

  • As in innocuous : adj harmless
  • As in thirsty : adj dry, desirous (especially for liquid)
  • As in wishy-washy : adj bland, dull
  • As in bland : adj tasteless; undistinctive
  • As in moistureless : adj dry
  • As in rainless : adj dry
  • As in dry : adj moistureless
  • As in feeble : adj not strong; ineffective
  • As in flat : adj dull, lackluster to the senses
Example sentences :
  • Was not my old age turned into a sapless tree, a poisoned spring?
  • Extract from : « The Disowned, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • He picked a bennet from the grass and bit it, but it was sapless, dried by the summer heat.
  • Extract from : « Wood Magic » by Richard Jefferies
  • They may be the same plants, but they are alive, not pressed and sapless.
  • Extract from : « The Rubicon » by E. F. Benson
  • A sapless tree is not a living one, but dead; a prayerless Christian cannot be.
  • Extract from : « Sermons » by Clement Bailhache
  • Everything was no more than dried flowers, sapless, brittle and colourless.
  • Extract from : « Up and Down » by Edward Frederic Benson
  • There is life always, even in the dry fir-cone that looks so brown and sapless.
  • Extract from : « The Open Air » by Richard Jefferies
  • Repression when successful induced a nerveless, sapless type.
  • Extract from : « William Blake » by Charles Gardner
  • It will all turn to stubble and sapless rigidity before his eyes.
  • Extract from : « How to Observe » by Harriet Martineau
  • But that happens when you are hoary and sapless, and when nothing under the sun delights you.'
  • Extract from : « New Grub Street » by George Gissing
  • He came to meet them on his crutches, a smile on his yellow, sapless face.
  • Extract from : « The Sheriff's Son » by William MacLeod Raine

Synonyms for sapless

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