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clueless

/ˈkluː.ləs/

clueless adjective: without any clues or hints.

Adjective

clueless (comparative more clueless, superlative most clueless)

  1. (literally) Without any clues or hints.
    • The shifting shapes mimicked the dilemma of the nearly clueless mystery of the Higgins Grove murders. As soon as the picture formed into something recognizable, it morphed into something else.2010, Kathleen Newberg, Faux Finish, page 97
  2. (figuratively) Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.

clueless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Vietnamese

clueless in Hindi

lacking knowledge or understanding
अनजान anjān, अनभिज्ञ anbhijña

clueless in Tamil

துப்புக் கிடைக்காத, ஒன்றும் புரியாத, காரண காரியங்கள் விளங்காத, புதிராக

clueless in Urdu

بےسراغ

clueless in Vietnamese

lacking knowledge or understanding
không đầu mối, không hiểu đời, không manh mối

Examples of clueless in a sentence

  • My boss is so clueless, he couldn't schedule his own way out of a paper bag.
  • So what is the game plan? We need to get everyone out of this alive, and I am clueless.
  • I woke up to the worker knocking my door so I was still eepy and clueless.

All 18 example sentences with clueless

Antonyms of clueless

Forms of clueless

comparativemore clueless
superlativemost clueless

Origin of clueless

From clue + -less.

Words formed from clueless

Questions about clueless

What does clueless mean?
Clueless means without any clues or hints.
What is clueless in Hindi?
Clueless in Hindi is अनजान (anjān), अनभिज्ञ (anbhijña). See Clueless meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is clueless?
Clueless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce clueless?
Clueless is pronounced /ˈkluː.ləs/.

Words near clueless in the dictionary

  1. clueful
  2. cluefully
  3. cluefulness
  4. clueing
  5. clueing up
  6. clueless
  7. cluelessly
  8. cluelessness
  9. cluelike
  10. cluemanship
  11. clues

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Adapted from Wiktionary: clueless (page history and authors); clueless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clueless (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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