Meanings
- not comparableLacking a weapon.
Summerlee was weaponless, but I was emptying my magazine as quick as I could fire, and on the further flank we heard the continuous cracking of our companion's rifles.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLCSynonyms: unarmed
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveLacking a weapon.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivewithout a weapon
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*wēpnalausaz
- Old Englishwǣpenlēas
- Middle Englishwepenles
- Englishweaponless
From Middle English wepenles, from Old English wǣpenlēas, from Proto-Germanic *wēpnalausaz, equivalent to weapon + -less. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woapenloos (“weaponless”), Dutch wapenloos (“weaponless”), German waffenlos (“weaponless”), Danish våbenløs (“weaponless”), Swedish vapenlös (“weaponless”), Icelandic vopnlaus (“weaponless”).
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-Germanic
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German waffenlos
- waffenloslacking a weapon
Hindi निहत्था, शस्त्रहीन
- निहत्था (nihatthā)lacking a weapon
- शस्त्रहीन (śastrahīn)lacking a weapon
Italian disarmato
- disarmatolacking a weapon
Polish bezorężny, nieuzbrojony
- bezorężnylacking a weapon
- nieuzbrojonylacking a weapon
Spanish sin armas
- sin armaslacking a weapon
Swedish vapenlös
- vapenlöslacking a weapon
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weaponless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/weaponless
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