Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking understanding or knowledge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective not providing any clue.
- adjective completely uninformed or unaware; hopelessly ignorant; utterly bewildered.
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- adjective Lacking
knowledge orunderstanding ;uninformed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bush calling Obama "clueless" is rich ... given that Bush doesn't even know that kettles and pots are black. wALdO
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The fact that a major party official could make so little sense and sound so clueless is utterly depressing.
Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed 2009
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Obama got the message, but you remain clueless! shocker!
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Republicans are plain clueless and just run off at the mouth on topics they know nothing about.
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So the number of men who had sex with other men prior to even 2000, contracted the virus and remain clueless about having it are extremely small.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
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I agree, the polling shows it, you remain clueless as usual though khunt!
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He ultimately has to make people believe that a person this inept and clueless is totally self-assured in himself to the point of putting everyone else in harms way.
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So, the idea of recording some lame jerk going about in clueless fashion is nothing new.
District 9...Good God! rabid1st 2009
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Yeah, come on everybody knows that being clueless is so down to earth and folksy.
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So the number of men who had sex with other men prior to even 2000, contracted the virus and remain clueless about having it are extremely small.
The Volokh Conspiracy » San Jose State University Continues to Suspend All Blood Drives on Campus 2010
oroboros commented on the word clueless
"I don't know what I'm doing, but..."
November 9, 2009