sleeveless
- adjective
- /ˈsliːv.ləs/
- In late May or early June, they would wear white sleeveless blouses.
- a sleeveless shirt
- a sleeveless dress
But the first thing that I picked up was this sleeveless long shirt.
- But the first thing that I picked up was this sleeveless long shirt.
- It is like a long sleeveless blazer.
- It's like, why are you wearing a sleeveless suit?
- They're weird sleeveless T-shirts, but I can't forgive their utter lack of bling.
- He's wearing a blue sleeveless shirt that is cut down and black gym shorts.
- I picked up this, which is a kind of high necked, sleeveless knitted jumper, crop top top.
- It's like a creamy off white knitted high neck, sleeveless and it's got all these cute little like knitted bobbles going down the front.
Examples
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I bought a plain white sleeveless vest.
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She'd have on a short skirt and a sleeveless top, and the gold locket my father had bought her.
Fiction book (1995) -
But the first thing that I picked up was this sleeveless long shirt.
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It's so me, I love to wear sleeveless clothing and show off my arms.
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Are the summer uniforms sleeveless?
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It is like a long sleeveless blazer.
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Karen would meet me beneath her window dressed in tan shorts and a sleeveless white blouse.
Fiction book (1994) -
But the women, in pantsuits or sleeveless dresses, sit up straight, like paper dolls bent in the middle.
Fiction book (1991) -
My mother wears a white, sleeveless turtleneck shirt and handmade, navy pedal pushers.
Academic text (2009) -
She's wearing a sleeveless dress that shows off her shoulders beautifully.
Synonyms
Having no armrests on furniture or sleeves on clothing
Antonyms
How Sleeved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sleeveless is made from sleeve (the cloth that covers the arm) and -less meaning 'without'. So sleeveless means 'without' sleeves, which is why it describes clothes that do not cover the arms.