fleshless

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adjective

Without flesh, lacking flesh; lean.

OriginMiddle English fleschles →
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Meanings

adjectivefleshless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWithout flesh, lacking flesh; lean.

    Thrusting in my head between the stems, I found myself gazing at a fleshless skull.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Middle Englishfleschles
  2. Englishfleshless

From Middle English fleschles, flechles, equivalent to flesh + -less. Cognate with West Frisian fleisleas (“meatless”), Dutch vleesloos (“meatless”), German fleischlos (“meatless”).

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Anagrams

shelfless
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APA

fleshless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fleshless

MLA

“fleshless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fleshless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fleshless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fleshless.

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