Meanings
comparative more legless · superlative most legless
- slangToo drunk to stand.
Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken
- Going nowhere.
That idea was legless.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveToo drunk to stand.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot having legs
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishlegles
- Englishlegless
From Middle English legles, equivalent to leg + -less.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 無腿的 /无腿的
- 無腿的 /无腿的 (wútuǐ de)without legs
Czech beznohý
- beznohýwithout legs
Estonian jalutu
- jalutuwithout legs
Finnish jalaton, kantokuntoinen
- jalatonwithout legs
- kantokuntoinentoo drunk to stand
French cul-de-jatte
- cul-de-jattewithout legs
German beinlos
- beinloswithout legs
Hungarian lábatlan
- lábatlanwithout legs
Icelandic án fóta, fótalaus
- án fótawithout legs
- fótalauswithout legs
Polish beznogi, beznożny
- beznogiwithout legs
- beznożnywithout legs
Russian безно́гий
- безно́гий (beznógij)without legs
Swedish benlös
- benlöswithout legs
Turkish bacaksız
- bacaksızwithout legs
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Cite this entry
legless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/legless
“legless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/legless. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “legless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/legless.
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