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Definitions: Scentless |
ScentlessAdjective1. Lacking the sense of smell. 2. Emitting or holding no odor; "scentless wisps of straw"; "a scentless stretch of rocky ground". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scentless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Synonyms by domain: horse daisy (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), scentless mayweed. |
| Antonym: scented (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Scentless |
| English words defined with "scentless": dog rose ♦ Rosa canina ♦ scentless camomile, scentless false camomile, scentless hayweed, scentless mayweed. (references) |
| "Scentless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Scentless" is used about 10 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% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scentless": scentless camomile ♦ scentless false camomile ♦ scentless hayweed ♦ scentless mayweed. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
scentless chamomile | 3 |
apprentice scentless | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scentless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عديم الرائحة (non flammable, odorless, odourless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "味 (Odorless, odourless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | lugtloes kamille (horse daisy, scentless mayweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reukeloze kamille (horse daisy, scentless mayweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فاقدبو. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | saunakukka (horse daisy, scentless mayweed), peltosaunio (horse daisy, scentless mayweed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans odeur, inodore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geruchlos (odorless, odourless, scentlessly, unscented). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άοσμοσ (inodorous, odourless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inodoro (inodorous, odorless, odourless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 냄새가 없". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gyn soar (inodorous, odourless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | entlessscay neparfumat, fãrã miros. (various references) без запаха (flavorless, flavourless, inodorous, odorless, odourless). (various references) manzanilla inodora (horse daisy, scentless mayweed). (various references) luktlös. (various references) kokusuz (inodorous, odorless, odourless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Matricaria inodora. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "scentless" (pronounced 'Scent"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, sapless, Sateless, scaleless, Scapeless, Scarless, Scathless, 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 | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: lessens, nestles, netless, selects. | |
-3 letters: censes, cesses, elects, lenses, lessen, nesses, nestle, scenes, scents, select, senses, sleets, steels, steles, tenses. | |
-4 letters: celts, cense, cents, cetes, elect, esses, leets, lenes, lense, nests, scene, scent, sects, seels, sense, sente, sleet, steel, stele, teels, teens, teles, tense. | |
-5 letters: cees, cels, celt, cent, cess, cete, eels, else, eses, lees, leet, lens, lent, less, lest, lets, ness, nest, nets, secs, sect, seel, seen, sees, sels, sene, sent, sets, teel, teen, tees, tele, tels, tens. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: selectness. | |
+3 letters: costlinesses, selectnesses, tactlessness. | |
+4 letters: coltishnesses, courtlinesses, cultishnesses, delicatessens, ethicalnesses, factualnesses, illicitnesses, necessitously, selectionists, selectiveness, substanceless, tactfulnesses, typicalnesses. | |
+5 letters: affectlessness, completenesses, criticalnesses, electivenesses, explicitnesses, felicitousness, implicitnesses, licentiousness, meticulousness, objectlessness, poeticalnesses, respectfulness, subadolescents, tactlessnesses, ticklishnesses, verticalnesses, watchfulnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 65 6E 74 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. . -. - .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c e n t l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0065 006E 0074 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536971808678718585 |
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