smackless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "At one period I received sufficient 'smackings' to grow callous, almost careless, about them. After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself."
- "threat of violence? This isn't smack. It's the complete opposite of smack. It is in essence, smackless."
- "If r.b.r. output was reduced to bicycle racing news, questions and smackless response, IMO, it would require almost all the current active participants to stop posting."
- "By comparison, Key lime pie ($6.99) was a more subtle, yet utterly smackless, option."
- "So Suzy and I compared our faultless arms, and exulted in our survival, in our own not wanting to die, in our own smackless pleasure in being just alive."
- "Strung out Junkies wander smackless."
Etymology
From smack + -less. Compare Middle English smakkeles, smechles (“savourless; lacking appeal or gusto”), West Frisian smakeleas (“tasteless”), Dutch smakeloos, smaakloos (“tasteless”), German geschmacklos (“tasteless”), Danish smagløs (“tasteless”), Swedish smaklös (“tasteless”), Icelandic smekklaus (“tasteless; indecent”).
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more smackless (comparative)
most smackless (superlative)