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shirtless

Syllables: shirt·lessUK/ˈʃɜːtləs/US/ˈʃɝtləs/

shirtless adjective: without a shirt.

shirtless: without a shirt
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Adjective

shirtless (comparative more shirtless, superlative most shirtless)

  1. Without a shirt.
    • a shirtless wardrobe
    • shirtless sunbathing
  2. Not wearing a shirt; having a bare torso, barechested.
    • We tried to block the glare from the lunch-break o’clock sun as we watched this babe with bejeweled nails dancing with a shirtless dude in the desert while rapping.2019 December, Samantha Irby, “Lizzo: TIME's Entertainer of the Year”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2020
  3. (idiomatic) Very poor.

shirtless meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu

shirtless in Tamil

சட்டை இல்லாதவர்

shirtless in Marathi

शर्टलेस

shirtless in Bengali

শার্টহীন, শার্টবিহীন

shirtless in Telugu

చొక్కా లేనిది, షర్టు లేనిది
More languagesFewer languages
shirtless in Malayalam
ഷർട്ടില്ലാത്തവർ, ഷർട്ടില്ലാത്ത
shirtless in Kannada
ಶರ್ಟ್ ರಹಿತ
shirtless in Punjabi
ਕਮੀਜ਼ ਰਹਿਤ
shirtless in Gujarati
શર્ટલેસ, શર્ટ વિનાનું, શર્ટ વિનાનો
shirtless in Odia
ସାର୍ଟବିହୀନ, ସାର୍ଟ ବିହୀନ
shirtless in Nepali
शर्ट रहित

Forms of shirtless

comparativemore shirtless
superlativemost shirtless

Origin of shirtless

From shirt + -less.

Words formed from shirtless

Questions about shirtless

What does shirtless mean?
Shirtless means without a shirt.
What is shirtless in Tamil?
Shirtless in Tamil is சட்டை இல்லாதவர். See Shirtless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is shirtless?
Shirtless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce shirtless?
Shirtless is pronounced /ˈʃɝtləs/ (US).

Words near shirtless in the dictionary

  1. shirtiest
  2. shirtily
  3. shirtiness
  4. shirting
  5. shirtings
  6. shirtless
  7. shirtlessly
  8. shirtlessness
  9. shirtlet
  10. shirtlets
  11. shirtlifter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shirtless (page history and authors); shirtless (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); shirtless (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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