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leafless

leafless adjective: of plants or trees, without leaves.

Adjective

leafless (not comparable)

  1. Of plants or trees, without leaves.
    • In winter the leafless trees look cold.
    • One afternoon, when all the party from the house were riding, Adeline sauntered under the leafless, hazel hedges, which separated the pleasure domain from the park.1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 214

leafless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Arabic

leafless in Hindi

without leaves
अपर्ण aparṇ

leafless in Tamil

இலையற்ற

leafless in Kannada

ಬೋಳು

leafless in Arabic

without leaves
أَمْرَد ʔamrad, أَجْرَد ʔajrad, أَمْرَط ʔamraṭ
More languagesFewer languages
leafless in Indonesian
ranggas

Origin of leafless

From earlier leaveless, from Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.

Words formed from leafless

Questions about leafless

What does leafless mean?
Leafless means of plants or trees, without leaves.
What is leafless in Hindi?
Leafless in Hindi is अपर्ण (aparṇ). See Leafless meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is leafless?
Leafless is an adjective.

Words near leafless in the dictionary

  1. leafing through
  2. leafings
  3. leafit
  4. leafits
  5. Leafland
  6. leafless
  7. leaflessness
  8. leaflet
  9. leafleted
  10. leafleteer
  11. leafleteering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leafless (page history and authors); leafless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); leafless (Kannada 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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