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shirtless

shirtless

28 1.8
Not wearing a shirt
  • adjective
  • /ˈʃɜrtləs/
translation icon : sin camisa
  • During the hot summer day, I saw several men playing beach volleyball shirtless.
  • shirtless man
  • shirtless guy
  • shirtless boy

He's just seems to want to film himself shirtless in the snow.

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Examples

  • Keith, you were on AGT performing shirtless with Terry Crews.

  • Or what about the shirtless biker, reading a comic book at the bar?

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Step forward if you agree nobody should be allowed to be shirtless in public.

  • Ooh, is Cute Boy shirtless again?

  • Okay, why is every guy shirtless?

  • On that day, I was shirtless, wearing a dark green bathing suit instead of shorts.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Jimmy is seated, shirtless, on a metal examining table.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • He's usually shirtless, but he's let himself go since the divorce.

  • He felt confident walking around the pool shirtless, enjoying the warm sun on his skin.

  • After finishing his workout, he stretched shirtless in the park before heading home.

Synonyms

unshirted
vsshirtless
8.2

Not wearing a shirt

is the same meaning expressed in a different word form
descamisado
vsshirtless
9.9

Without a shirt so the chest shows

is about lack of upper body clothing rather than chest focus
uncovered
vsshirtless
  • NSFW
1.9

Not wearing clothes on a part of the body

is specific to having no upper body clothing rather than general exposure

Antonyms

1 1.0

Wearing a shirt

How Dressed

jacketed
5 4.2
shirted
1 1.0
shirtless
28 1.8
bare-breasted
  • NSFW
2 7.3
naked
  • NSFW
982 1.0

Surface Forms

shirtless positive

Morphology

shirtless = shirt (transparent) = shirt + less

Direct and regular formation from the noun 'shirt' + the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so the meaning is clearly derived.

Etymology

Shirtless breaks into shirt, the top you wear, and -less meaning 'without', like in the word 'hopeless'. So shirtless means 'without a shirt', which is why we use it for someone not wearing a top.