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breastless

breastless

1 6.9
Being without breasts
  • adjective
  • /ˈbrɛstləs/
translation icon : sin pechos
  • Three weeks later, she is breastless but alive, thanks to friends who insisted she act and find another medical opinion.

Examples

  • From the start, Polly was built the way she wanted to be, thin and breastless like Twiggy.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • You should look at our sad, breastless magazines because of how horrible the country would become if females were allowed to love and enjoy their bodies.

    Blog text (11)

  • Breastless and bald, with ribbed arms, lashless eyes,

    Academic text (1992)

  • She's breastless, barely literate, unmenstrual.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • After her surgery, she felt breastless but focused on her recovery and personal strength.

  • The artist portrayed a breastless figure to emphasize body positivity and self-acceptance.

  • The breastless statue in the museum highlighted the beauty of the human form beyond conventional standards.

Antonyms

breasted
19 7.5

Having a breast or a certain breast appearance, often in words like red-breasted

How Big

breastful
8.4
boob
  • NSFW
188 8.9
midsize
  • US
8 3.2
breastless
1 6.9

Surface Forms

breastless positive

Morphology

breastless = breast (transparent) = breast + less

Meaning is directly derived from 'breast' + the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so learners can readily infer it.

Etymology

Breastless is simply the word breast with the ending -less, which means 'without'. So, it literally means 'without a breast' and is used for a person, animal, or object that lacks breasts, like a statue or after surgery.