toothless
US/ˈtuθləs/
toothless adjective: having no teeth.
Adjective
toothless (comparative more toothless, superlative most toothless)
- Having no teeth.
- a toothless old man
- She goes on to explain the difficulty she's having getting visas for Lawrence and for Robert, the 14-year-old who is her older brother and is, amazingly, the last child of the toothless tiny woman who buzzes around us. (I find out later that she is only in her mid-fifties.)1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" -- A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8
- Synonyms:
- edentate, edentulous, teethless
- Antonyms:
- dentate, dentiferous, dentigerous, dentulous, toothed, toothy
- Weak; having no ability to enforce something.
- The treaty was toothless because of the lack of participation from the undersigned.
- Not tell? Ha! ha! I could ſmile, / At this old, and toothleſſe vvile.1603 July 5 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “A Particular Entertainment of the Queene and Prince Their Highnesse to Althrope, at the Right Honourable the Lord Spencers, on...
- Synonyms:
- tame, anemic, breakable, broken-down, damaged, debilitated, decrepit, delicate, dickless, effete
toothless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam
toothless in Hindi
- Having no teeth
- पोपला poplā
toothless in Tamil
- பல்லிழந்த, பொக்கை, கூர்மையிழந்த, மழுங்கிய
toothless in Urdu
- بےدانت, بےخطرہ, پوپلا
toothless in Malayalam
- പല്ലില്ലാത്ത, ദന്തഹീന
More languagesFewer languages
- toothless in Kannada
- ಬೋಡು, ಬೊಕ್ಕು, ಹಲ್ಲಿಲಿ, ಪಲ್ಲಿಲಿ
- toothless in Tagalog
- ngubngob
- toothless in Persian
- بیدندان bīdandān
- toothless in Vietnamese
- móm
Examples of toothless in a sentence
- Bans of the sale of human remains across platforms like Facebook, Etsy, Instagram and eBay are toothless and poorly enforced, Huffer said.2021 October 10, Caroline Anders, “A TikTok bone salesman’s wall of spines reignites ethical debate over selling human remains”, in The...
- The glut of moronic, Roganesque dude-bro podcasts are long overdue for mocking, but this one is toothless.2024 November 17, Zach Vasquez, “Saturday Night Live: Charli xcx has fun in otherwise middle of the road episode”, in The Guardian, →ISSN...
Synonyms of toothless
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Antonyms
Forms of toothless
| comparative | more toothless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most toothless |
Origin of toothless
From Middle English tothles, from Old English tōþlēas, from Proto-Germanic *tanþlausaz (“toothless”), equivalent to tooth + -less. Cognate with Dutch tandeloos (“toothless”), German Low German tannlos (“toothless”), German zahnlos (“toothless”), Danish tandløs (“toothless”), Swedish tandlös (“toothless”), Icelandic tannlaus (“toothless”).
Words formed from toothless
Phrases with toothless
Questions about toothless
- What does toothless mean?
- Toothless means having no teeth.
- What is toothless in Hindi?
- Toothless in Hindi is पोपला (poplā). See Toothless meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use toothless in a sentence?
- Bans of the sale of human remains across platforms like Facebook, Etsy, Instagram and eBay are toothless and poorly enforced, Huffer said.
- What part of speech is toothless?
- Toothless is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce toothless?
- Toothless is pronounced /ˈtuθləs/ (US).
Words near toothless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: toothless (page history and authors); toothless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toothless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toothless (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toothless (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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