leafless

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adjective

Of plants or trees, without leaves.

“In winter the leafless trees look cold.”

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiveleafless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf plants or trees, without leaves.

    In winter the leafless trees look cold.

    3 more examples

    One afternoon, when all the party from the house were riding, Adeline sauntered under the leafless, hazel hedges, which separated the pleasure domain from the park.

    1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 214

    Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panneling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.

    1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 50

    For many times with the laughing girls and boys / Played I along the road and over the hills / When the sun was low and the air was cool, / Stopping to club the walnut tree / Standing leafless against a flaming west.

    1915, Edgar Lee Masters, “Hare Drummer”, in Spoon River Anthology, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, page 27

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivehaving no leaves

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Englishleveles
  2. Englishleafless

From earlier leaveless, from Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.

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Translations

Ancient Greek ἄφυλλος
  • ἄφυλλος (áphullos)without leaves
Arabic أَمْرَد, أَجْرَد
  • أَمْرَد (ʔamrad)without leaves
  • أَجْرَد (ʔajrad)without leaves
  • أَمْرَط (ʔamraṭ)without leaves
Danish bladløs
  • bladløswithout leaves
Dutch bladerloos, bladloos
  • bladerlooswithout leaves
  • bladlooswithout leaves
Esperanto senfolia
  • senfoliawithout leaves
Finnish lehdetön
  • lehdetönwithout leaves
French effeuillé
  • effeuilléwithout leaves
German blattlos, blätterlos
  • blattloswithout leaves
  • blätterloswithout leaves
Greek άφυλλος
  • άφυλλος (áfyllos)without leaves
Hindi अपर्ण
  • अपर्ण (aparṇ)without leaves
Hungarian levéltelen, lombtalan
  • levéltelenwithout leaves
  • lombtalanwithout leaves
  • kopárwithout leaves
Indonesian ranggas
  • ranggaswithout leaves
Italian afillo
  • afillowithout leaves
Latin infrons
  • infronswithout leaves
Polish bezlistny
  • bezlistnywithout leaves
Scottish Gaelic gun duille, gun duilleag
  • gun duillewithout leaves
  • gun duilleagwithout leaves
  • lomwithout leaves
Spanish áfilo, afilo
  • áfilowithout leaves
  • afilowithout leaves
Swedish bladlös
  • bladlöswithout leaves
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APA

leafless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leafless

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Chicago

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