Meanings
- not comparableWithout any successful songs.
While she was hitless herself, Denise produced R & B hits like Bill Coday's "Get Your Lie Straight" and the Sequins' "Hey Romeo."
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 277 - not comparableball gamesHaving failed to make any base hits over a period of time, usually one game.
Jones is hitless in the last four games.
- not comparableball gamesHaving no hits over a period of time, usually part of one game.
The team is hitless since the third inning.
- not comparablevideo gamesCompleted without taking damage (getting hit).
You get an achievement for pulling off a hitless first area.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of a batter) without a hit
adjectivehaving no points scores
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishhit
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishhitless
Cite this entry
hitless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hitless
“hitless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hitless. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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