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
- 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
- au naturel
- bald
- bare
- bare-skinned
- bared
- barren
- defenseless
- denuded
- disrobed
- divested
- exposed
- helpless
- in birthday suit
- in dishabille
- in the altogether
- in the buff
- in the raw
- leafless
- natural
- nude
- open
- peeled
- raw
- stark-naked
- stripped
- threadbare
- unclad
- unclothed
- unconcealed
- uncovered
- undraped
- undressed
- unprotected
- unveiled
- vulnerable
- without a stitch
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