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Definition: Toothless |
ToothlessAdjective1. Lacking teeth; "most birds are toothless"; "a toothless old crone". 2. Lacking necessary force for effectiveness; "a toothless piece of legislation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toothless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you are toothless, denotes your inability to advance your interests, and ill health will cast goom{sic} over your prospects. To see others toothless, foretells that enemies are trying in vain to calumniate you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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| Antonym: toothed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bluntness | Adjective: blunt, obtuse, dull, bluff; edentate, toothless. |
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Crosswords: Toothless |
| English words defined with "toothless": Acipenser sturio, ant bear, anteater ♦ bellows fish, billfish ♦ Cyclopes didactylus, cyprinid, cyprinid fish ♦ genus Struthiomimus, giant anteater, great anteater ♦ lesser anteater ♦ Masticator, Myrmecophaga jubata ♦ pangolin ♦ scaly anteater, silky anteater, snipefish, struthiomimus, sucker, swordfish ♦ tamandu, tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla, tamanoir, two-toed anteater ♦ Xiphias gladius. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "toothless": marble handsaw, marble saw ♦ pangolins ♦ scaly ant-eaters. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "toothless": Edentata. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag, (JUMPING JACK FLASH; performing artist: The Rolling Stones) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Toothless Beaver (1965) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | [Bald man and toothless man] / H[onore] D[aumier]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Toothless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toothless" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 85 | 35,870 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "toothless": near-toothless. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
toothless | 57 |
toothless woman | 15 |
blow job toothless | 7 |
picture toothless woman | 6 |
picture toothless | 5 |
people toothless | 4 |
fat redneck toothless | 4 |
people picture toothless | 4 |
smile toothless | 4 |
man toothless | 3 |
boy toothless | 3 |
cock sucker toothless | 3 |
cat toothless | 3 |
bitch toothless | 3 |
girl toothless | 2 |
pic toothless | 2 |
photo toothless | 2 |
pic toothless woman | 2 |
sluts toothless | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "toothless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | غير فاعل, ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), أدرد غير ذي أسنان. (various references) | |
Chinese | 牙. (various references) | |
Czech | bezzubý (edentate). (various references) | |
Farsi | بی دندان , بدون دندانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | hampaaton. (various references) | |
French | inefficace, impuissant, édentée, édenté. (various references) | |
German | zahnlos (toothlessly). (various references) | |
Greek | φαφούτησ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | fogatlan. (various references) | |
Indonesian | ompong. (various references) | |
Italian | sdentato. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 歯抜け . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はぬけ (falling out of teeth, person with missing teeth). (various references) | |
Korean | 이가 지". (various references) | |
Manx | gyn feeackle (anodont). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oothlesstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem dentes, desdentado (fangless). (various references) | |
Romanian | fãrã dinţi (edentate), ştirb (blunt, nicked). (various references) | |
Russian | беззубый (edentate). (various references) | |
Scottish | cairbinneach (a toothless person). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez zuba. (various references) | |
Spanish | sin dientes. (various references) | |
Swedish | tandlös. (various references) | |
Turkish | dişsiz (edentate). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | беззубий. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không có răng; sún. (various references) | |
Welsh | mantach. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | inermes. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Toothless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: toothglass. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "toothless" (pronounced tuw"thlus) |
| 5 | -uw" th l u s | ruthless. |
| 4 | -th l u s | breathless, worthless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, zealous, zipless. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-o-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: soothest. | |
-2 letters: hostels, loosest, lotoses, shtetls, soothes, tootles, tootses. | |
-3 letters: helots, hosels, hostel, hotels, looses, lottes, lottos, sheols, shools, shoots, shotes, shotts, shtetl, sloths, soothe, sooths, sotols, stoles, stools, tholes, tholos, tooths, tootle, toshes. | |
-4 letters: ethos, helos, helot, hests, holes, holts, hoots, hosel, hoses, hosts, hotel, loess, loose, loots, loses, lotos, lotte, lotto, oleos. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-o-s-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: ethologists. | |
+3 letters: ethnologists, phytosterols. | |
+4 letters: hematologists, phlebotomists, technologists, tortoiseshell, troubleshoots. | |
+5 letters: herpetologists, methodologists, tortoiseshells. | |
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