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armless

armless adjective: having no arms.

Adjective

armless (not comparable)

  1. Having no arms.
    • When you have been waited on by armless hands, and have had a short conversation with a cat, nothing can surprise you much.1912, Edith Nesbit, The White Cat
    Antonyms:
    armed

armless meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

armless in Tamil

கையில்லாத, கிளையற்ற, படைக்கலம் ஏந்தாத, வெறுங்கையரான

armless in Urdu

نہتا, بے اسلحہ

armless in Bengali

armless, handless, having no hands
অকর okor

armless in Kannada

ನಿಶ್ಯಸ್ತ್ರ
More languagesFewer languages
armless in Punjabi
ٹنڈا ṭunḍā, ਟੁੰਡਾ ṭuṇḍā

Antonyms of armless

Origin of armless

From Middle English armlees; equivalent to arm + -less.

Words formed from armless

Phrases with armless

Questions about armless

What does armless mean?
Armless means having no arms.
What is armless in Tamil?
Armless in Tamil is கையில்லாத, கிளையற்ற, படைக்கலம் ஏந்தாத. See Armless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is armless?
Armless is an adjective.

Words near armless in the dictionary

  1. Armitages
  2. armitas
  3. Armitt
  4. armlength
  5. armlengths
  6. armless
  7. armless wonder
  8. armless wonders
  9. armlessly
  10. armlessness
  11. armlet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: armless (page history and authors); armless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); armless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); অকর (Bengali) (page history and authors); armless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ٹنڈا (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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