Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having little or no force; feeble; impotent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having little or no force; feeble.

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  • adjective Without force.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking force; feeble

Etymologies

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force +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The cannons watch silent out over the bay as the ghosts of our youth perform revolving plays of forceless attacks.

    Along the Battlement Paul de Denus 2010

  • Fast Times at the Capitol Complex yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Fast Times at the Capitol Complex'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: A neutered Senate and a forceless mainstream media provide no checks and balances on a power-crazed president.'

    Fast Times at the Capitol Complex 2006

  • No blows were struck, save for a few flailing and forceless ones by Trist.

    Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

  • These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me;

    Venus and Adonis 2004

  • "There is no mark, " the old man said in a clear but forceless voice, -or mention that this Contract has been approved by the Oriolis Cavernus.

    The Coelura McCaffrey, Anne 1983

  • The weakling is he in whose forceless nature one serpent after another writhes its head up, dominant for a moment only, doomed to be thrust down by another fancy as fickle.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me,

    Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants James H. Head

  • Besides, to a child of positive traits, those persuasions are utterly forceless which, instead of being addressed to the prominent faculties, are directed to those comparatively deficient.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me;

    Venus and Adonis 1914

  • There were some in the Corinthian Church who had become thus enervated and forceless, and the Apostle seeks to stir them up into a more vigorous life.

    Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913

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