ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Limbless

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Limbless is an adjective meaning Lacking limbs.

Meaning

Lacking limbs.

Example Sentences

We cut down the limbless tree for firewood, it was dead anyways.
It hurt the general to see the limbless veterans who had sacrificed their arms and legs to a senseless war.
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.

Synonyms for limbless

Depending on context, synonyms include boughless.

Antonyms for limbless

Common opposites include boughed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boughless, acolous, legless, memberless, no-legged, underlimbed.

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