Sapless \Sap"less\, a.
1. Destitute of sap; not juicy.
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2. Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. "A somewhat
sapless womanhood." --Lowell.
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Now sapless on the verge of death he stands.
--Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sapless
adj 1: lacking physical strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman";
"her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile,
feeble, infirm, weak, weakly]
2: destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and
roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer
WordNet (r) 2.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "sapless":
Saharan, anemic, anhydrous, arid, asthenic, athirst, bland,
bloodless, bone-dry, chicken, cowardly, dead, debilitated, desert,
dilute, diluted, driveling, drooping, droopy, droughty, dry,
dry as dust, dull, dusty, effete, etiolated, fade, faint, faintish,
feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flavorless, floppy, gone, gruelly,
gutless, high and dry, imbecile, impotent, inane, indifferent,
innocuous, insipid, jejune, juiceless, languid, languorous,
like parchment, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, mild,
milk-and-water, namby-pamby, nerveless, pappy, pithless, pooped,
powerless, pulpy, rubbery, sandy, savorless, sinewless, slack,
soft, spiceless, spineless, stale, strengthless, tasteless, thin,
thirsting, thirsty, undamped, unflavored, unhardened, unnerved,
unsavory, unstrung, unwatered, vapid, washy, watered, watered-down,
waterless, watery, weak, weakly, wishy-washy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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