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sapless
adjective
1 sapless
Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality:
— Her body looked sapless.
synonyms: debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, weak, weakly.
Roget 160:
weak,
feeble,
debile†;
impotent
etc.
158;
relaxed,
unnerved,
etc.
v.;
sapless,
strengthless†,
powerless;
weakly,
unstrung,
flaccid,
adynamic†,
asthenic†;
nervous.
soft,
effeminate,
feminate†,
womanly.
frail,
fragile,
shattery†;
flimsy,
unsubstantial,
insubstantial,
gimcrack,
gingerbread;
rickety,
creaky,
creaking,
cranky;
craichy†;
drooping,
tottering
etc.
v..
broken,
lame,
withered,
shattered,
shaken,
crazy,
shaky;
palsied
etc.
158;
decrepit.
languid,
poor,
infirm;
faint,
faintish†;
sickly
etc.
(disease)
655;
dull,
slack,
evanid†,
spent,
short-winded,
effete;
weather-beaten;
decayed,
rotten,
worn,
seedy,
languishing,
wasted,
washy,
laid low,
pulled down,
the worse for wear.
unstrengthened
etc.
159†,
unsupported,
unaided,
unassisted;
aidless†,
defenseless
etc.
158;
cantilevered
(support)
215.
on its last legs;
weak as a child,
weak as a baby,
weak as a chicken,
weak as a cat,
weak as a rat;
weak as water,
weak as water gruel,
weak as gingerbread,
weak as milk and water;
colorless
etc.
429.
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Roget 340:
dry,
anhydrous,
arid;
adust†,
arescent†;
dried
etc.
v.;
undamped;
juiceless†,
sapless;
sear;
husky;
rainless,
without rain,
fine;
dry as a bone,
dry as dust,
dry as a stick,
dry as a mummy,
dry as a biscuit.
water proof,
water tight.
dehydrated,
dessicated.
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2 sapless
Destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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