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winglesse

winglesse is the obsolete spelling of wingless.

Meaning of wingless

Adjective

wingless (not comparable)

  1. Having no, or only rudimentary, wings.
    • Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs.2010, Ann M. Jayne, Kory's Jungle, page 145
    Synonyms:
    apterous, unwinged
    Antonyms:
    winged

Questions about winglesse

What is winglesse the obsolete spelling of?
Winglesse is the obsolete spelling of wingless.

Words near winglesse in the dictionary

  1. wingle
  2. Wingler
  3. Winglers
  4. wingles
  5. wingless
  6. winglesse
  7. winglessly
  8. winglessness
  9. winglet
  10. winglets
  11. winglike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: winglesse (page history and authors); wingless (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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