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Definition: Clueless |
CluelessAdjective1. Totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CluelessSynonym: clewless (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Clueless |
| Specialty definitions using "clueless": 404 ♦ brochureware ♦ lamer ♦ Oracle, the. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Oh, Steven, you poor, clueless old geek. (House on Haunted Hill; writing credit: Dick Beebe) She's clueless. (Oja majô doremi; writing credit: Navid Khonsari) 'I have to get a part for my car', 'I'm going to go study' - that's kid code for 'Meet me at the previously agreed upon location far away from my clueless uncle. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Clueless (1996) | |
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| "Clueless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Clueless" is used about 26 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% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "clueless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa asnjë ide, në errësirë (in darkness, in eclipse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | ohne Anhaltspunkt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn leeid, almoragh (benighted, ignorant, unconversant, uncultured, uninformed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uelessclay невежеÑтвенный (empty-headed, ignorant, rude, unintelligent). (various references) không manh mối, không đầu mối. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Clueless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clubless, clueles, cluless, cultellus, flueless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "clueless" (pronounced kluw"lus) |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, 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, ruthless, 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, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-l-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: sculls, selles. | |
-3 letters: cells, clues, culls, luces, scull, seels, selle, sells, slues. | |
-4 letters: cees, cell, cels, cess, clue, cues, cull, cuss, ecus, eels, ells, else, eses, lees, less, luce, lues, secs, seel, sees, sell, sels, slue, sues, uses. | |
-5 letters: cee, cel, cue, ecu, eel, ell, els, ess, lee, leu, sec, see, sel, sue, use. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-l-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: cellulases, celluloses, sculleries. | |
+3 letters: brucelloses, seclusively, subcolleges. | |
+4 letters: cellulitises, culpableness. | |
+5 letters: callousnesses, cloudlessness, counterspells, miscellaneous, precalculuses, surveillances, uncleanliness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 75 65 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. ..- . .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01110101 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l u e l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0075 0065 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3778877178718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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