limbless
/lˈɪmləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It hurt the general to see the limbless veterans who had sacrificed their arms and legs to a senseless war."
- "We cut down the limbless tree for firewood. It was dead anyways."
- "[…] wert not thou to blame, To counsel me to give the Reins to Cyrus? Pleas’d me with Hopes, and fed my longing Ears With cunning Tales of this ambitious Boy, And when myself wou’d fain have led my Armies, Made me lie down in Sloth, yielding to him These Hands, these Feet, my Legions, and my Strength, And left me then a weak and limbless Body, Drench’d in Delights, and drown’d in studies Pleasures."
- "And then as to this beautiful tree, with which Mr. Serjeant has ornamented his ſpot—No, gentlemen, no ſuch matter at all; I am inſtructed to ſay quite the reverſe; a ſtunted tree, a blighted, blaſted tree; a tree not only limbleſs, and leafleſs, but very near lifeleſs; that was the true ſtate of the tree: […]"
- "It was n't finished. It was purely an experiment. It was a limbless thing, with a horrible face, that writhed along the ground in a serpentine fashion."
- "The squat, limbless growth of the prickly pear was not like the green growths of home, springing on light stalks to lovely flowers like butterflies captured out of air. It was more like the dead blind bubbling of some green, squalid slime: a world of plants that were as plain and flat as stones."
Etymology
Etymology tree English limb Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English limbless From limb + -less.