neckless
1
7.5
- adjective
- /ˈnɛkləs/
:
sin cuello
- Here lies my most precious neckless, it is yours.
- neckless head
- shoulders, practically neckless
Examples
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I have no use for a neckless doll with a floppy head, no hair, and a missing button nose.
Fiction book (2002) -
If you lived in Mongolia, you would know that Mr. Elbegdorj is known as the "neckless liar."
Blog text (7) -
You're treating me like some neckless goober after I wrote this song for you?
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"His neckless head bobbed in appreciative comprehension.
Fiction book (1996) -
The man had an almost normal-sized head which was jammed, neckless, onto small corduroyed shoulders.
Fiction book (1996) -
Short Indian women with straight dark hair framing their round faces, which seemed to sit neckless on their shoulders, carried babies on their backs while surrounded by several other children of every size and age, and had spread their handicrafts out before them to sell to passersby.
Fiction book (1996) -
Hurst found that a sherd from a neckless tecomate jar, buried deep in backfill beneath the floor of the site's largest and presumably most important structure, contained theobromine.
Academic text (2010) -
Candida Celeste chuckled when the Yok repeated his, "Hmmm?" and so did the neckless football player sitting diagonally from her, trying his damnedest to play footsies from that angle.
Fiction book (2002) -
He did not have a neck, and his head sat nearly neckless on his broad shoulders.
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He was a neckless giant with a small head and a sliver of a mustache.
Antonyms
How Long
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Neckless is made from neck and the ending -less, which means 'without', so it literally means 'without a neck' and is used for people or animals that look like they have no neck.