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smackless

smackless adjective: lacking smack (all senses).

Adjective

smackless (comparative more smackless, superlative most smackless)

  1. (literal and figurative) Lacking smack (all senses)
    • At one period I received sufficient 'smackings' to grow callous, almost careless, about them. After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 33
    • threat of violence? This isn't smack. It's the complete opposite of smack. It is in essence, smackless.1999 February 6, SoleMooCow, “UZ 15 most hated RolePlayers”, in alt.sport.lasertag (Usenet)
    1. (slang, literal and figurative) Without heroin.
      • So Suzy and I compared our faultless arms, and exulted in our survival, in our own not wanting to die, in our own smackless pleasure in being just alive.1996, James M. Hawes, A White Merc with Fins, page 57
      • Strung out Junkies wander smackless.2004, Des Dillon, The Glasgow Dragon
    2. (colloquial, literal and figurative) Without kisses.
      • Oh, Who Could Be So Heartless As To Vote Dry And Leave This Poor Child Bankrupt and His Mamma Smackless?1914, Once a Year - Volumes 20-23, page 87
      • My lips are lonely. They've been smackless for the good part of a year now and need kissing badly.2002, Holly Millea, Elle - Volume 17, Issues 5-8, page v

Examples of smackless in a sentence

  • If r.b.r. output was reduced to bicycle racing news, questions and smackless response, IMO, it would require almost all the current active participants to stop posting.2001 May 18, Mike Gladu, “Passive Racing at the Elite Level - NOT”, in rec.bicycles.racing (Usenet):
  • By comparison, Key lime pie ($6.99) was a more subtle, yet utterly smackless, option.2014 July 9, Faiyaz Kara, “Cooper's Hawk is a wine-country-fied Cracker Barrel”, in Orlando Weekly:
  • Like some smackless junkie, I was withdrawing from the nicotine, and it hurt.2015, Ron Gridcharts, Make Yourself Uncomfortable, page 71:

Forms of smackless

comparativemore smackless
superlativemost smackless

Origin of smackless

From smack + -less. Compare Middle English smakkeles, smechles (“savourless; lacking appeal or gusto”), West Frisian smakeleas (“tasteless”), Dutch smakeloos, smaakloos (“tasteless”), German geschmacklos (“tasteless”), Danish smagløs (“tasteless”), Swedish smaklös (“tasteless”), Icelandic smekklaus (“tasteless; indecent”).

Questions about smackless

What does smackless mean?
Smackless means lacking smack (all senses).
How do you use smackless in a sentence?
If r.b.r. output was reduced to bicycle racing news, questions and smackless response, IMO, it would require almost all the current active participants to stop posting.
What part of speech is smackless?
Smackless is an adjective.

Words near smackless in the dictionary

  1. smacking down
  2. smacking out
  3. smacking up
  4. smackingly
  5. smackings
  6. smackless
  7. smacks
  8. smacks around
  9. smacks down
  10. smacks out
  11. smacks up

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