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weetless

UK/ˈwiːtləs/

weetless adjective: unknowing, unconscious.

Adjective

weetless (comparative more weetless, superlative most weetless)

  1. (archaic) Unknowing, unconscious.
    • But the false Archer, which that arrow shot / So slyly that she did not feele the wound, / Did smyle full smoothly at her weetlesse wofull stound.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Meaningless.
    • Syker, thous but a laesie loord, and rekes much of thy swinck, / That with fond termes, and weetlesse words to blere myne eyes doest thinke.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC

Forms of weetless

comparativemore weetless
superlativemost weetless

Origin of weetless

From weet + -less.

Questions about weetless

What does weetless mean?
Weetless means unknowing, unconscious.
What part of speech is weetless?
Weetless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce weetless?
Weetless is pronounced /ˈwiːtləs/ (UK).

Words near weetless in the dictionary

  1. weeted
  2. Weethalle
  3. Weethley
  4. weeting
  5. weetingly
  6. weetless
  7. Weeton
  8. weets
  9. WEEV
  10. weever
  11. weeverfish

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