PITHLESS

Definition: PITHLESS

PITHLESS

Adjective

1. Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PITHLESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

Impotence

Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.

Albanian

i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, enervate, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بدون رحمة (ruthless). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кух (hollow), безсъдържателен (empty, idle, inane, insignificant, jejune, meager, meagre, sterile, unmeaning, vacuous, vain, watery), безгръбначен (boneless, invertebrate, molluscous, spineless), безжизнен (breathless, dead, earthy, glassy, inanimate, insensate, languid, lifeless, sapless, set, stone-dead, tuneless), без сърцевина, празен (airy, airy fairy, bare, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, loose, piffling, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty). (various references)

Greek 

άνευ μυελού, ασθενήσ (ailing, feckless, ill, infirm, patient, piping, sick, unwell). (various references)

Hungarian

gerinctelen (boneless, invertebrate, spineless, supple). (various references)

Manx

moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, sorry, tardy, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing). (various references)

Pig Latin

ithlesspay.(various references)

Portuguese

sem vigor (sapless, spiritless), sem medula, sem energia (boneless, characterless, nerveless, sapless, slack, sluggish, spineless, spiritless, supine), mole (boneless, flaccid, floppy, limp, loppy, molluscous, mushy, pappy, pulpy, sleepy, sluggish, soapy, soft, spineless, spiritless, squashy, supine, tender, weak), flácido (flabby, limp, loppy, pappy, pulpy). (various references)

Russian 

бессодержательный (empty, inane), бесхребетный (spineless). (various references)

Scottish

siachair (a pithless wretch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

bez srži. (various references)

Swedish

slapp (flabby, flaccid, flaggy, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, slack, wet), märglös, kraftlös (effete, enervated, feeble, forceless, impotent, impuissant, ineffectual, limp, milky, powerless, week). (various references)

Turkish

zayıf (atonic, bad mark, faint, fatless, feeble, feint, flaccid, flagging, frail, gaunt, gracile, invertebrate, lean, low, nerveless, poor, puny, shaky, sinewless, slight, slim, small, spare, spent, thin, unmanly, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), içeriksiz (empty, meaningless, unsophisticated), özsüz (sapless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không có nghị lực (gutless), bạc nhược (frail). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hipless, hitless, spilths, stipels, tipless.

-2 letters: heists, islets, istles, pishes, pistes, plisse, shiels, shiest, shleps, sliest, slipes, speils, spelts, spiels, spiles, spilth, spites, splits, stiles, stipel, stipes, thesis.

-3 letters: heils, heist, helps, hests, hilts, hists, isles, islet, istle, lisps, lists, lithe, pelts, pests, piles, piste, piths, plies, septs, shiel, shies, ships, shist, shlep.

+1 letter: helistops, isopleths, plashiest, plushiest, sulphites.

+2 letters: clipsheets, fishplates, shapeliest, splashiest.

+3 letters: apostleship, asphaltites, battleships, clothespins, hospitalise, legateships, philistines, pilothouses, platyfishes, polytheisms, polytheists, psilophytes, shinplaster, shoplifters, sphalerites, spherulites, splotchiest.

+4 letters: apostleships, hospitalised, hospitalises, hospitalizes, hyperbolists, lectureships, listenership, lithospheres, philatelists, preestablish, psephologist, shinplasters, siphonostele, slaphappiest, spaceflights, sprightliest, telephonists, upholsteries.

+5 letters: elephantiases, elephantiasis, hairsplitters, heliotropisms, hospitalities, laureateships, listenerships, lithotripsies, nephrologists, pennywhistles, phalansteries, phillumenists, phlebotomists, phraseologist, phrenologists, physicalities, psephologists, relationships, rhinoplasties, siphonosteles, sprightliness, stylographies, telegraphists.