Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Lacking understanding or knowledge.
Wiktionary
- adj. Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. not providing any clue.
- adj. completely uninformed or unaware; hopelessly ignorant; utterly bewildered.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring
Etymologies
- clue + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Bush calling Obama "clueless" is rich ... given that Bush doesn't even know that kettles and pots are black. wALdO”
“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.”
“Yeah, come on everybody knows that being clueless is so down to earth and folksy.”
“I agree, the polling shows it, you remain clueless as usual though khunt!”
“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
“So, the idea of recording some lame jerk going about in clueless fashion is nothing new.”
“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
“Obama got the message, but you remain clueless! shocker!”
“Republicans are plain clueless and just run off at the mouth on topics they know nothing about.”
“Unfortunately, those who refuse to pay close attention to the life and writings of Ratzinger/Benedict will remain clueless about this supposedly cold and even ruthless scholar/Church leader is first and foremost a priest and pastor.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clueless’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, unless, useless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, endless, nevertheless, countless, jobless, doubtless and 434 more...
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I am costanza, lord of the "idiots"!
moron, dolt, knucklehead, buffoon, clown, imbecile, asinine, slow, witless, dimwitted, blockhead, clueless and 10 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Expressions
(Facial)
pained, pitiful, reproachful, annoyed, dismissive, excited, eager, spiteful, contemptuous, passive, calm, nervous and 155 more...
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Idk, I like these words.
ethereality, apathy, consideration, soul, safety, lone wolf, darkness, pressure, ocean, few, collapse, believe and 155 more...
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The -less Said...
hopeless, bootless, groundless, luckless, artless, feckless, hapless, joyless, useless, penniless, childless, peerless and 310 more...
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Oofy
States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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I am
considering, ruined, troubled, worried, frustrated, negative, depressing, depressed, depression, sick, exhausted, alone and 59 more...
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identity
daughter, sister, girlfriend, student, passionate, pragmatic, outspoken, shy, fashionista, kind, stubborn, honest and 7 more...
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Way Less Than A Genius
...but way smarter than asphalt ;)
doofus, dope, dunce, dork, dingaling, idiot, fool, dodo, bonehead, futz, retard, ditz and 35 more...
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thisismydisaster's list
I'm new here.
fresh, green, wet behind the ears, unfamiliar, neo, unversed, new kid on the block, inexperienced, untried, unaccustomed, unacquainted, ignorant and 8 more...
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less is more
words ending in -less
feckless, gormless, restless, breathless, clueless, rudderless, brainless, hapless, helpless
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