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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having no sleeves;
- Example: "sleeveless summer dresses"

2. unproductive of success;
- Example: "a fruitless search"
- Example: "futile years after her artistic peak"
- Example: "a sleeveless errand"
- Example: "a vain attempt"
[syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sleeveless \Sleeve"less\, a. [AS. sl[=e]fle['a]s.]
   1. Having no sleeves.
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   2. Lacking a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable;
      profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] --Shak.
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            The vexation of a sleeveless errand.  --Bp.
                                                  Warburton.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sleeveless
    adj 1: having no sleeves; "sleeveless summer dresses" [ant:
           sleeved]
    2: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years
       after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain
       attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile,
       sleeveless, vain]