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hartlesse

hartlesse adjective: timid.

Adjective

hartlesse (comparative more hartlesse, superlative most hartlesse)

  1. (nonce-word, obsolete) timid
    • the hartlesse hynd and roebucke to dismay1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 7

Forms of hartlesse

comparativemore hartlesse
superlativemost hartlesse

Questions about hartlesse

What does hartlesse mean?
Hartlesse means timid.
What part of speech is hartlesse?
Hartlesse is an adjective.

Words near hartlesse in the dictionary

  1. Hartlepool monkey
  2. Hartlepudlian
  3. Hartlepudlians
  4. Hartles
  5. Hartless
  6. hartlesse
  7. Hartlesses
  8. hartley
  9. Hartley County
  10. Hartley function
  11. Hartley oscillator

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