topless
topless adjective: lacking a top.
Adjective
topless (not comparable)
- Lacking a top.
- The sight-seeing bus is topless to allow tourists a better view of the sights.
- Very high; towering.
- Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
- Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.
- The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.
- Synonyms:
- bare-breasted, barechested, half-naked, semi-nude, shirtless, topfree
- Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
- Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.
- Driving down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars, the topless bars / Never saw a woman so alone1971, “L.A. Woman”, in Jim Morrison (lyrics), L.A. Woman, performed by The Doors
Adverb
topless (not comparable)
- Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.
- 'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43
- Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.2019 September 19, Pete Williams, “Topless women win big as Colorado city drops ban”, in NBC News
Noun
topless (plural toplesses)
- A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.
topless meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
topless in Hindi
- टॉपलेस, टॉपलैस
topless in Marathi
- टॉपलेस
topless in Bengali
- অনাবৃতপ্রায়
topless in Telugu
- టాప్లెస్, టాప్ లెస్
More languagesFewer languages
- topless in Malayalam
- ടോപ്പ്ലെസ്, ടോപ്പ്ലെസ്സ്
- topless in Kannada
- ಟಾಪ್ಲೆಸ್
- topless in Punjabi
- ਟਾਪਲੈੱਸ, ਟੌਪਲੈੱਸ
- topless in Gujarati
- અર્ધનગ્ન ardhanagna
- topless in Odia
- ଟପଲେସ
- topless in Nepali
- टॉपलेस
- topless in Vietnamese
- trần
Examples of topless in a sentence
- Gary was a hulking meathead who, when he wasn't playing football, was either hunting, fishing or getting drunk and rowdy in some topless bar.
- Topless variants may still be considered bikinis, although technically no longer two-piece swimsuits.
- She expected an assortment of Skinema posters or photos of topless screen sirens, but the walls were bare.
Synonyms of topless
Forms of topless
| plural | toplesses |
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Origin of topless
From top + -less.
Words formed from topless
- topless dress
- toplessly
- topless meeting
- toplessness
- topless radio
Phrases with topless
Questions about topless
- What does topless mean?
- Topless means lacking a top.
- What is topless in Hindi?
- Topless in Hindi is टॉपलेस, टॉपलैस. See Topless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is topless?
- Topless can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
Words near topless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: topless (page history and authors); topless (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topless (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); topless (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topless (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topless (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topless (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); અર્ધનગ્ન (Gujarati) (page history and authors); topless (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); topless (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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