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Definitions: Sapless |
SaplessAdjective1. Lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless". 2. Destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sapless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
Synonyms: SaplessSynonyms: decrepit (adj), feeble (adj), infirm (adj), weak (adj), weakly (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dryness | Adjective: dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent; dried. Verb: undamped; juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit. |
Weakness | Adjective: weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved; Verb: sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sapless |
| English words defined with "sapless": Exsuccous. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sapless | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sapless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i shtrydhur (squeezed), i ligështuar (down-hearted, flabby, unstrung), i dobësuar (diluted, effete, emaciated, emasculate, exhausted, flagging, rundown). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sec, spare, tearless, undamped, uninspired), безжизнен (breathless, dead, earthy, glassy, inanimate, insensate, languid, lifeless, pithless, set, stone-dead, tuneless), безинтересен (characterless, chippy, dim, frumpish, incurious, languid, milk and water, mousey, soulless, stupid, unamusing, uninteresting, unreadable, vegetable, vegetal, warmed-over), без сок, блудкав (insipid, mawkish, milk and water, namby-pamby, unappetizing, washy), изсъхнал (dried, dry, parched, sere, thirsty). (various references) | |
Czech | zvadlý (dead, faded, flaccid, sear, withered), nezajímavý (slow, unattractive, uninteresting), mdlý (dull, faint, flat, languid, pale, sick, sickly, torpid, vapid, wan, watery). (various references) | |
German | saftlose, saftlos (saplessly). (various references) | |
Greek | στεγνόσ (dry, tearless), άχυμοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | erõtlen (enervate, forceless, lifeless, powerless, spiritless, supine, washed up). (various references) | |
Italian | senza linfa, avvizzito (withered). (various references) | |
Manx | gyn vree (expressionless, feeble, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual, inexpressive, inoperative, invalid, lethargic, torpid, vigourless, void), gyn soo (unassimilated, unassimilated as food), gyn bree (less, pointless, unexciting, weak, weak as style), creen (decayed, diminutive, ripe, trifling, withered), chirrym (arid, dry, dry-bulb, prohibitionist, waterless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aplesssay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem vigor (pithy, spiritless), sem seiva, sem energia (boneless, characterless, nerveless, pithless, slack, sluggish, spineless, spiritless, supine), seco (arid, chippy, curt, dabby, dried, dry, hacking, jeroboam, parching, rainless, sear, seared, seasoned, sec, sere, stale, thirsty, undamped), insípido (flat, flavorless, flavourless, frigidity, halfback, insipid, jejune, mawseed, milk and water, muzzy, pointless, savorless, savourless, stale, tasteless, uninspired, vapid, washy, watery, wishy washy). (various references) | |
Russian | истощенный (cachectic, effete, emaciated, exhausted, impoverished, spent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | osušen (dried, sere, wizened), bez soka, beživotan (lifeless, milk and water). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin savia, trivial (banal, commonplace, dismal, fiddling, footling, mundane, piffling, platitudinous, trite, trivial), estéril (barren, effete, futile, hungry, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive, vain). (various references) | |
Swedish | torr (arid, barometric millimeter of mercury, barometric millimetre of mercury, clean, droughty, dry, dryness, jejune, millimeter of mercury, millimetre of mercury, mm Hg, parched, torr, torrid). (various references) | |
Turkish | zevksiz (jaded, tasteless, tawdry, unamusing), kuru (arid, dried, dry, drying, rate, scarious), güçsüz (crank, doughy, feeble, flabby, helpless, impotent, ineffectual, powerless, shaky, sinewless, strengthless, weak), cansız (apathetic, apathetical, bloodless, colorless, dead, dead pan, dying, exanimate, feckless, flagging, heartless, inanimate, lackadaisical, lackluster, lacklustre, languid, lifeless, listless, poky, singsong, sluggish, soulless, spiritless, stagnant, toneless, torpid, weak, wishy washy, wishywashy), özsuyu olmayan, özsüz (pithless). (various references) | |
Ukranian | в'ялий (drowsy, flabby, flaccid, heavy-handed, listless, oscitant, phlegmatic, quaggy, sleepy, stagnant), висохлий (withered, wizen, wizened), виснажений (all in, atrophic, atrophous, attenuate, attenuated, barren, beat, bedrid, cachectic, crocked, effete, emaciate, emaciated, exhausted, hidebound, impoverished, jaded, outspent, outworn, overcome, overdriven, overworn, perished, played out, spent, wan, washed out, washed up, weariful, whipped-up, worn, worn out), беззмістовний (bald, barren, blank, empty, inane, insignificant, matterless, vapid). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không có sinh lực, không có nhựa không có nhựa sống. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sapless": saplessness, saplessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Sapless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: capless, sarples, seplets, shapless, sparless, srapless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sapless" (pronounced 'Sap"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless, Bushless, Careless, Chaffless, Chainless, Changeless, Chapeless, Chapless, Chargeless, Charmless, Chartless, Checkless, Cheerless, Chiefless, Christless, Churchless, Claimless, Clankless, Clawless, Clerkless, Cloudless, Cloyless, Coatless, Combless, Conceitless, Contentless, Corruptless, Costless, Couchless, Countless, Craftless, Creedless, Crestless, Crimeless, Crownless, Cubless, Curbless, Curdless, Cureless, Dateless, Dauntless, Deathless, Debtless, Deceitless, Decreaseless, Deedless, Defenseless, Delightless, Denseless, Depthless, Desertless, Designless, Desireless, Devoutless, Dewless, Diskless, Disputeless, Distrustless, Divorceless, Dogeless, Doorless, Dreamless, Driftless, Drinkless, Drossless, Ductless, Dureless, Dustless, Earless, Easeless, Edgeless, Effectless, Endless, Eventless, Exceptless, Excuseless, Exhaustless, Expenseless, Extremeless, Eyeless, Fadeless, Faithless, Fameless, Fangless, Faultless, Fearless, Feckless, Feetless, Fenceless, Fineless, Finless, Fireless, Firmless, Flameless, flawless, Fleckless, Fleeceless, Fleshless, Floorless, foamless, Fogless, Foldless, foodless, footless, forceless, Fordless, Forkless, formless, Fraudless, Freightless, FRIENDLESS, Frightless, Fringeless, Frockless, Frontless, Frostless, Frothless, Frounceless, fruitless, Fumeless, Funuless, Gainless, Gameless, Gateless, Gaudless, Germless, Ghostless, Glebeless, godless, Goldless, Goodless, graceless, Grapeless, Graspless, grassless, Graveless, Griefless, groundless, Guardless, Guideless, guileless, guiltless, Gustless, hairless, handless, hapless, harmless, hatless, Haveless, Hazeless, headless, Healthless, heartless, heatless, Hedgeless, heedless, Heelless, Heirless, Helmless, helpless, Herbless, Hingeless, Hireless, Hiveless, homeless, Hoodless, Hoofless, hopeless, hornless, Horseless, Hostless, HOUSELESS, hueless, Humpless, Hurtless, Importless, Irresistless, Itchless, Jointless, joyless, juiceless, Kindless, Kingless, Knightless, Knotless, Lampless, landless, lawless, leafless, Leaveless, legless, lidless, lifeless, lightless, limbless, lipless, listless, Lockless, lossless, loveless, luckless, Lungless, Lustless, Makeless, Maneless, Manless, matchless, mateless, meatless, Mightless, mindless, mirthless, Mistrustless, Moistless, moonless, Mouthless, Museless, Nailless, Nameless, Napless, Nathless, nerveless, Nightless, Noiseless, Noseless, Noteless, Oarless, Offenseless, Opposeless, Painless, Paintless, Palpless, Paneless, Pangless, Passless, Pathless, Peaceless, Peerless, Phaseless, Phraseless, Pieceless, Pithless, Placeless, Plagueless, Plaintless, Planless, Plantless, Pledgeless, Pluckless, Plumeless, Pointless, Poleless, Praiseless, Prayerless, Pretenseless, Priceless, Prideless, Priestless, Princeless, Proofless, Pulseless, Quenchless, Rainless, rayless, Reachless, Realmless, Rechless, reckless, Reclaimless, Recureless, Redeless, Redressless, Reedless, regardless, Reinless, relentless, Reliefless, remorseless, Renownless, Repentless, Reproachless, Repulseless, Reputeless, resistless, resourceless, Respectless, Responseless, restless, Resultless, Retchless, Returnless, Revengeless, Reverseless, Rewardless, rhymeless, Rhythmless, ribless, Rightless, Rindless, roadless, Rockless, roofless, Roomless, rootless, Ruleless, Rumpless, rustless, Sackless, Sailless, Saltless, Sateless, scaleless, Scapeless, Scarless, Scathless, scentless, Schismless, seamless, Searchless, Seatless, seedless, Seemless, selfless, senseless, sexless, Shadeless, shameless, shapeless, Sheathless, Shieldless, shiftless, Shipless, Shirtless, shoeless, Shoreless, Shredless, Shroudless, Shrubless, Shunless, Sickless, sightless, sinless, Skinless, Slakeless, sleepless, sleeveless, Smileless, Smockless, smokeless, Snowless, Sockless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: passels. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-p-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: lapses, lasses, passel, passes, saleps, sepals, spales. | |
-2 letters: apses, asses, lapse, lases, leaps, pales, pases, passe, peals, pleas, salep, sales, salps, seals, sepal, slaps, spaes, spale. | |
-3 letters: ales, alps, apes, apse, asps, laps, lase, lass, leap, leas, less, pale, pals, pase, pass, peal, peas, plea, sale, salp, sals, saps, sass, seal, seas, sels, slap, spae, spas. | |
-4 letters: ale, alp, als, ape, asp, ass, els, ess, lap, las, lea, pal, pas, pea, pes, sae, sal, sap, sea, sel, spa. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la, pa, pe. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-p-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: passless, pastless, snapless, soapless, spanless, splashes. | |
+2 letters: espousals, plussages, shapeless, slipcases, spaceless, splashers, stampless, strapless. | |
+3 letters: alphosises, dispersals, displeases, palenesses, palliasses, pastelists, slapdashes, splashiest, spyglasses, subsamples, superclass, supersales. | |
+4 letters: amplenesses, disposables, glasspapers, haplessness, palimpsests, passionless, pastellists, peristalses, peristalsis, plainnesses, plasmodesms, plasmolyses, plesiosaurs, salesperson, saplessness, semipostals, shapelessly, shapeliness, slipstreams, specialises, specialisms, specialists, specialness, splashiness, straplesses, superscales, surpassable, surplusages. | |
+5 letters: anaplasmoses, apostleships, backsplashes, blastospores, displeasures, erysipelases, hospitalises, leopardesses, painlessness, pallidnesses, paltrinesses, pastoralness, pathlessness, personalises, personalisms, personalists, physicalness, placidnesses, planlessness, plasmodesmas, pleasantness, pleasingness, pleasureless, pliantnesses, possessional, salesmanship, salespersons, shinplasters, spheroplasts, superclasses. | |
| 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)53 61 70 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .--. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a p l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0070 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53678278718585 |
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