Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leaveless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: leave-less
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Without leaves; leafless

Example Sentences

"c. 1671, Thomas Carew, verses prefatory to Sandy's Psalms Then I no more shall court the verdant bay, But the dry leaveless trunk on Golgotha."
"The samples are quartered and are further divided, e.g. into needles, leaves and leaveless twigs."
"It's almost noon. Arko left the area and entered the forest to hunt with the rest of the wolves. The area seemed pretty dead. Many leaveless trees. No bird chirping or leaves chattering. Arko was worried that they were going to fail the mission."

Etymology

From Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: leveles
Suffix: leaf

Questions

What does leaveless mean?: Without leaves; leafless
Where does leaveless come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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