toothless

adjectiveB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more toothless

Superlative

most toothless

1.
Having no teeth.
a toothless old man
Đồng nghĩa: edentate, edentulous, teethless
2.
(figuratively)Weak; having no ability to enforce something.
The treaty was toothless because of the lack of participation from the undersigned.
Đồng nghĩa: tame, anemic, breakable, broken-down, damaged, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, dickless, effete, enervated, enfeebled, exhausted, faint, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, harmed, hurt, impaired, impotent, infirm, injured, languid, low, powerless, prostrated, prostrate, puny, raddled, resistless, sapped, slightsoft, softened, susceptible, tender, tired, torpid, unresistant, vincible, vulnerable, wasted, weak, weakened, weary, weedy, wimpy, worn out, yielding

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

edentateedentulousteethless tame anemicbreakablebroken-downdamaged debilitated decrepitdelicatedicklesseffete enervatedenfeebledexhaustedfaint feeble flimsy fragile

Trái nghĩa

dentatedentiferousdentigerousdentuloustoothed toothy

Cùng gốc / liên quan

toothlessly toothlessnesstoothless whalecanine-toothlessfront-toothless

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English tothles, from Old English tōþlēas, from Proto-Germanic *tanþlausaz (toothless), equivalent to tooth + -less. Cognate with tandeloos, tannlos, zahnlos, tandløs, tandlös, tannlaus.