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nailless

nailless

6.1
Without nails on fingers, toes, or in a joint used in building
  • adjective
  • /ˈneɪləs/
translation icon : sin uñas
  • Its big hands end in five very long, very beautiful nailless fingers.
  • nailless fingers

Examples

  • Her nailless hands made it easier for her to play the piano without hindrance.

  • The artist used nailless techniques to create a seamless look in his furniture.

  • Its big, splaying, nailless feet are sandaled in the same tooled leather. "Oh," says the old man.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The sculpture was striking, featuring a nailless design that highlighted the smoothness of the wood.

Synonyms

unnailed
vsnailless
9.9

Having no fingernails or toenails

refers more broadly to absence of nails in people or objects

Surface Forms

nailless positive

Morphology

nailless = nail (transparent) = nail + less

Meaning 'without nails' follows the straightforward combination of 'nail' + '-less' and is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word nailless comes from nail and the ending -less, where nail can mean the hard part at the end of a finger or a small metal spike, and -less means 'without'. So, nailless simply means 'without nails', whether about fingers, animal paws, or a joint made without metal nails.