backless
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3.7
- adjective
- /ˈbæk.ləs/
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sin respaldo
- It's padded and backless, so it's really sexy.
- backless dress
- backless gown
- backless bench
So just here at the bottom of our backless section where this gap hits the waist, on the inside there are two little kind of like invisible clear buttons.
- So just here at the bottom of our backless section where this gap hits the waist, on the inside there are two little kind of like invisible clear buttons.
Examples
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The low viewpoint and the high-cut, backless swimsuit are perfect for showing.
Blog text (22) -
We placed a simple monitor at the end of the installation and provided about a dozen backless stools where people could sit.
Academic text (1999) -
When you possess a terrific back, for example, you may choose a backless dress.
Blog text (25) -
Her feet were stuffed into backless slippers.
Fiction book (1999) -
Yama took his time seating himself on a backless chair known as the shozit, or hot seat.
Fiction book (2000) -
Subjects rose, with arms folded, from armless, backless, non-upholstered chairs.
Academic text (1996) -
The others leer or pout as they sit on a backless bench at a ninety-degree angle from the rest of us.
Fiction book (1996) -
The few benches are backless, their seats furrowed with lovers' initials that rain has broadened into illegible scars.
Fiction book (1998) -
The bulk of the first day, from noon to eight o'clock in the evening, was spent sitting on long, backless wooden benches, listening to sermon after sermon, singing and praying, standing and sitting, as the pastor and three assistants led the program.
Academic text (2000) -
She wore a stunning backless dress that highlighted her figure beautifully.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Backless is made from back and the ending -less, where -less means 'without' and you can see it in words like hopeless. So a backless chair or dress is simply something 'without' a back, which explains the modern meaning.