Leafless

Quick meaning: Leafless is an adjective meaning Of plants or trees, without leaves.

Meaning

Of plants or trees, without leaves.

Example Sentences

In winter the leafless trees look cold.

One afternoon, when all the party from the house were riding, Adeline sauntered under the leafless, hazel hedges, which separated the pleasure domain from the park.

For many times with the laughing girls and boys / Played I along the road and over the hills / When the sun was low and the air was cool, / Stopping to club the walnut tree / Standing leafless against a flaming west.

Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panneling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.

Synonyms for leafless

Depending on context, synonyms include bare, defoliate, aphyllous, scapose, defoliated.

Antonyms for leafless

Common opposites include leafy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bare, defoliate, aphyllous, scapose, defoliated, leaveless.

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