Antonyms for leafless


Grammar : Adj
Spell : leef
Phonetic Transcription : lif


Definition of leafless

Origin :
  • 1580s, from leaf (n.) + -less.
  • As in naked : adj without covering
Example sentences :
  • Let the trees again be leafless; let the rivers flow no longer in their empty beds.
  • Extract from : « Imogen » by William Godwin
  • At last we reach a tree partly unoccupied, but it is leafless, alas!
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • Every leafless bough of yonder lofty elder-tree is thick with birds.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • The wind blew strongly, and soughed in the stiff and leafless boughs.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • Even yet on the sheltered side there was a monthly rose or two on the leafless bushes.
  • Extract from : « Mary Gray » by Katharine Tynan
  • They were between him and the leafless lilacs and mulberries that lined the street wall.
  • Extract from : « Christmas » by Zona Gale
  • An elm overhangs it, and the lower boughs are dead and leafless.
  • Extract from : « The Toilers of the Field » by Richard Jefferies
  • There's beauty in the leafless trees that you cannot see in summer.
  • Extract from : « The Wide, Wide World » by Susan Warner
  • The leafless branches in the atrium below them rattled in the wind.
  • Extract from : « The Saracen: The Holy War » by Robert Shea
  • There was no shade, and only a few thin, leafless bushes rose from the sand.
  • Extract from : « The River War » by Winston S. Churchill

Synonyms for leafless

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