shirtless

/ˈʃɝtləs/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English

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Meaning

adj

Without a shirt.

adj

adj

Very poor.

"a shirtless wardrobe"
"shirtless sunbathing"
"We tried to block the glare from the lunch-break o’clock sun as we watched this babe with bejeweled nails dancing with a shirtless dude in the desert while rapping."

Etymology tree English shirt 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 shirtless From shirt + -less.

more shirtless (comparative) most shirtless (superlative)

shirtlessly shirtlessness

scared shirtless

Questions

How do you pronounce shirtless?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃɝtləs/.

What does shirtless mean?

Without a shirt.

Where does shirtless come from?

How to pronounce shirtless

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