thumbless
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6.1
Having no thumb or not able to use it
- adjective
- /ˈθʌmbləs/
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sin pulgar
- She struggled to hold the pen properly with her thumbless fingers.
- thumbless hand
Examples
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A pair of thumbless hands appeared in the light, the index finger of each hand touching at the tip, the other fingers folded.
Fiction book (2001) -
The marmoset and the lemur are thumbless.
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I watch him spoon rice onto his plate, clutching the utensil in his thumbless hand.
Fiction book (2000) -
The artist created a beautiful sculpture using only his thumbless hand.
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The athlete adapted his techniques to excel despite his thumbless condition.
Surface Forms
thumbless positive
Morphology
Etymology
The word thumbless is simple: it joins thumb, the finger you use to hold things, and -less, which means 'without'. So thumbless means 'without a thumb', and that helps explain why a thumbless hand cannot hold objects the same way as a hand with a thumb.