blossomless

4.9

Not having flowers and showing no sign of new growth or promise

adjective
/ˈblɑsəmləs/

: sin flores

After months of drought, the landscape remained dry and blossomless.

Examples

Lang looked back at the blossomless cherry trees.

Fiction book (1997)
Picking up the shreds, darting into the blossomless forsythia to retrieve a wayward patch, she rose, pressed the damp cuttings to her flat breast, and entered the house.

Fiction book (1993)
The garden looked bleak and blossomless after the harsh winter.
The artist's latest work is blossomless, lacking the vibrancy of her previous pieces.

Synonyms

flowerless

vsblossomless

4.5

A plant that does not make blooms or seeds

is also used figuratively to mean lacking growth or promise

nonflowering

vsblossomless

Specialized

5.8

A plant that does not make flowers or seeds

is used mainly for plants and not for figurative lack of promise

unblossomed

vsblossomless

6.6

Not opened into a flower yet or not fully grown

means absence of flowers or promise rather than a temporary unopened stage

Antonyms

blooming

1 1.8

The time when a plant produces flowers

flourishing

1 4.2

Growing quickly and doing well, like a business or town

How Promising

flourishing

1 4.2

promising

203 3.1

budding

3 4.1

blossomless

4.9

unpromising

3 4.5

barren

57 4.6

Surface Forms

blossomless positive

Morphology

blossomless = blossom (transparent) = blossom + less

Clear, regular formation from the noun 'blossom' plus productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without'.

Etymology

Blossomless comes from blossom ('a flower' or 'to bloom') plus the ending -less ('without'). So something blossomless has 'no flowers', and when we use it for people or places it means 'showing no sign of new growth or promise'.