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spineless

spineless adjective: having no spines, prickles, or thorns.

Adjective

spineless (comparative more spineless, superlative most spineless)

  1. (not comparable) Having no spines, prickles, or thorns.
    Synonyms:
    unspined, unspiny
    Antonyms:
    spined, spiny
  2. (not comparable) Having no spinal column.
    Synonyms:
    invertebrate
  3. Cowardly, uncourageous; lacking character.
    • You can laugh / A spineless laugh1997, “Exit Music (For a Film)”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead
    • If this results in a society which MacIntyre has criticized as being the province of the manager, the aesthete and the analyst, types almost sinister in their philosophical lightmindedness, superficiality, programmed uninterestingness, and their depressingly spineless willingness to grant the...2006, Robin Holt, Wittgenstein, Politics and Human Rights, →ISBN

spineless meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

spineless in Tamil

உறுதியற்ற, வலுவற்ற, முட்களற்று

spineless in Bengali

মেরুদণ্ডহীন, ভীরু

spineless in Malayalam

weak-willed, weak, weak-kneed
നട്ടെല്ലില്ലാത്ത, ദുർബ്ബലഹൃദയനായ, നിഷ്പ്രതിഭാന, ധെെര്യമില്ലാത്ത, തൻ്റേടമില്ലാത്ത, ആത്മധെെര്യമില്ലാത്ത

spineless in Kannada

ಬೆನ್ನುಮೂಳೆ ಇಲ್ಲದ, ಧೈರ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಕೆಚ್ಚಿಲ್ಲದ, ಹೆದರಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವ, ಹೇಡಿಯಾದ, ಪುಕ್ಕಲ

Synonyms of spineless

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Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of spineless

Forms of spineless

comparativemore spineless
superlativemost spineless

Origin of spineless

From spine + -less.

Words formed from spineless

Phrases with spineless

Questions about spineless

What does spineless mean?
Spineless means having no spines, prickles, or thorns.
What is spineless in Tamil?
Spineless in Tamil is உறுதியற்ற, வலுவற்ற, முட்களற்று. See Spineless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spineless?
Spineless is an adjective.

Words near spineless in the dictionary

  1. spined loach
  2. spined loaches
  3. spinefoot
  4. spinefoots
  5. spinel
  6. spineless
  7. spineless eel
  8. spineless eels
  9. spineless sadism
  10. spinelessly
  11. spinelessness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spineless (page history and authors); spineless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spineless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); spineless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); spineless (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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