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lipless

lipless

1 7.1
Having no visible soft skin at the edge of the mouth
  • adjective
  • /ˈlɪpləs/
translation icon : sin labios
  • The lipless mouth moved, yellow teeth chattering.
  • lipless mouth
  • lipless grin
  • lipless plug

But his voice sounded not like a man's voice, but like a beast, hoarse and lipless, that tries to speak.

Examples

  • But his voice sounded not like a man's voice, but like a beast, hoarse and lipless, that tries to speak.

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • He abides it all with a lipless, simpleton grin.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • I can tell by her mouth, which becomes lipless.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The cheeks were sunken on either side of a straight, lipless mouth.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • They had almost no necks, and their lipless mouths extended more than an inch beyond where their noses should have been.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Empty eye sockets gaped wide and dark above a lipless death's-head grin full of yellowing teeth.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The lipless mouth was pulled up in a grim rictus, a ceaseless wheezing emanating from that black maw.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The flesh was orange with diffuse black blotches that might or might not be cancers, and a lipless, toothless mouth seemed to flow into a grin.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The mouth was a straight gash, lipless and unmoving.

  • The cheeks were sunken on either side of a straight, lipless mouth.

Synonyms

unlipped
vslipless
9.9

Something with no raised edge or rim

means simply lacking any mouth rim without extra structural detail

Antonyms

lipped
15 6.3

A thing with a noticeable rim, like a mug or flower petal

How Many Lips

three-lipped
  • Specialized
9.2
two-lipped
  • Specialized
9.0
lipless
1 7.1

Surface Forms

lipless positive

Morphology

lipless = lip (transparent) = lip + less

The adjective is directly formed by adding the productive suffix '-less' to 'lip', meaning 'without lips', which is obvious to learners.

Etymology

Lipless is made from lip and the ending -less, where lip is the body part and -less means 'without', just like in homeless. So lipless simply means 'without lips', which is why we use it for faces, fish, or statues that have no visible lips.