leafless
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- adjective
- /ˈliːfləs/
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- The garden looked desolate with its leafless shrubs and bare branches swaying in the cold wind.
- leafless tree
Or the way the tree trunks lay in the northern woods, leafless, then save for the ground cover.
- Or the way the tree trunks lay in the northern woods, leafless, then save for the ground cover.
- But when her in her poems where she addresses issue of reception and racism, her work is full of images of stark, leafless scratching, pointing trees.
Examples
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Dusty sunlight sparkled through the nearly leafless trees, cutting across the yard at an angle.
Fiction book (1993) -
The moon rose above the hills, the light falling down through the leafless trees and producing the effect Konrad had predicted.
Fiction book (2001) -
There were no crosses, only the leafless trees beyond my window.
Fiction book (1990) -
Or the way the tree trunks lay in the northern woods, leafless, then save for the ground cover.
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Irene looked up through the leafless branches of the trees.
Fiction book (1992) -
Even without their leaves, don't be fooled to believe that there is nothing to get from leafless trees.
Academic text (2006) -
A breeze came down the side of the mountain, rattling the leafless branches of the hickories.
Fiction book (2001) -
The sky was bleak, and so were my photo prospects as I trudged among the leafless trees and shrubs.
Academic text (1993) -
The trees' knobby gray limbs draped their supporting scaffoldings, stark and leafless in winter.
Fiction book (1995) -
Designer buildings nestled amidst wide swathes of white lawn, frozen water, and leafless groves.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
A plant without leaves, often to save water in dry places
A tree that has lost most or all of its leaves
Antonyms
How Leafy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Leafless is made of leaf and -less, where leaf means 'the flat green part of a plant' and -less means 'without'. So leafless literally means 'without leaves', which is why we use it for a tree or plant that has no leaves.