limbless

Examples

• All

• The Communists gave her a job teaching sculpture to limbless children.

  Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

• Just past the windy crest, limbless dead trees stood in a perfect line stretching from dawn to dusk.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Later, I encountered another wolf eel, this one about three feet long, undulating across the expanse of the seamount in its eerie, limbless way.

  Academic text (2009)

• The charity organized a special program for limbless individuals to help them gain new skills.

• At the park, I saw limbless veterans receiving support and encouragement from volunteers.

• The story highlighted the challenges faced by limbless children and the strength they showed every day.

Synonyms

U

unappendaged

vslimbless

• Specialized

9.9

Having no limbs like arms or legs attached

is the general term for lacking arms, legs, or similar parts

A

apodal

vslimbless

• Specialized

9.9

Not having feet or legs, like a snake

is the broader term not limited to animals

Antonyms

L

limbed

1 6.4

With arms or legs, often used to describe people with long ones

How Leglike

leggy

6 4.6

leglike

4.3

limbless

1 5.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology