gloveless
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- adjective
- /ˈɡloʊv.ləs/
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sin guantes
- "Whys don't always get answered," he said, his hands hanging gloveless and empty.
- gloveless hands
- gloveless fingers
Examples
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He was warmer now, except for his gloveless hands.
Fiction book (1995) -
Your talents include code breaking, riot control, and gloveless interrogation.
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His gloveless hands ached, and so he returned to his wife; at twelve, he was sleeping.
Fiction book (1999) -
We squinted our eyes, and some of our town, closer than I was, held out gloveless hands, rubbing and turning them over and over.
Fiction book (1998) -
He devised techniques to help him dive blind, feeling around with gloveless hands and a metal rod, determining what kind of stone he found by sound and vibration.
Academic text (2009) -
Even as he put the note away, Peter could still remember the night of the boycott when Jesse Jackson delivered a speech from the steps outside the Union in the bitter cold of February, could still recall standing there gloveless, hands freezing, listening to a baritone voice that made his armpits tingle.
Fiction book (1996) -
He was warmer now, except for his gloveless hands.
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The feel of soil sifting through my gloveless fingers.
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On the coldest Wisconsin winter days, he went out gloveless and hatless, his face and fingers gone angry red in the frigid, prickling wind.
Synonyms
Using the hands without gloves or other covering
Antonyms
How Covered
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Etymology
Gloveless joins glove and the ending -less, which means 'without', as in hopeless. So gloveless simply means 'without gloves', which explains why someone's hands are bare.