Found 3 hits - Term: sapless, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sapless \sap"less\, a.
1. destitute of sap; not juicy.
1913 webster
2. fig.: dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. "a somewhat
sapless womanhood." --lowell.
1913 webster
now sapless on the verge of death he stands.
--dryden.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sapless
adj 1: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman";
"her body looked sapless" syn: decrepit, debile,
feeble, infirm, weak, weakly
2: destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and
roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- norman mailer
see also:
decrepit debile feeble infirm weak weakly
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
94 moby thesaurus words for "sapless":
saharan, anemic, anhydrous, arid, asthenic, athirst, bland,
bloodless, bone-dry, chicken, cowardly, dead, debilitated, desert,
dilute, diluted, driveling, drooping, droopy, droughty, dry,
dry as dust, dull, dusty, effete, etiolated, fade, faint, faintish,
feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flavorless, floppy, gone, gruelly,
gutless, high and dry, imbecile, impotent, inane, indifferent,
innocuous, insipid, jejune, juiceless, languid, languorous,
like parchment, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, mild,
milk-and-water, namby-pamby, nerveless, pappy, pithless, pooped,
powerless, pulpy, rubbery, sandy, savorless, sinewless, slack,
soft, spiceless, spineless, stale, strengthless, tasteless, thin,
thirsting, thirsty, undamped, unflavored, unhardened, unnerved,
unsavory, unstrung, unwatered, vapid, washy, watered, watered-down,
waterless, watery, weak, weakly, wishy-washy
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