Sapless

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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