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gloveless

gloveless adjective: without gloves.

Adjective

gloveless (not comparable)

  1. Without gloves.
    • The hand which is not concealed by the drapery is gloveless; the arms are bare considerably above the elbow; and a bracelet encircles the right wrist.1900, William Carew Hazlitt, The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797

Origin of gloveless

From glove + -less.

Words formed from gloveless

Questions about gloveless

What does gloveless mean?
Gloveless means without gloves.
What part of speech is gloveless?
Gloveless is an adjective.

Words near gloveless in the dictionary

  1. gloveboxes
  2. gloved
  3. gloved up
  4. gloveful
  5. glovefuls
  6. gloveless
  7. glovelessly
  8. glovelessness
  9. glovelike
  10. glovemaker
  11. glovemakers

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