sleeveless
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1.8
- adjective
- /ˈsliːv.ləs/
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sin mangas
- 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
1
2.8
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.