Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Devoid of sap; dry.
- adjective Lacking spirit or energy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of sap; dry; withered.
- Hence Destitute of or deficient in vital force.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Destitute of sap; not juicy.
- adjective Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a plant lacking in
sap - adjective figuratively lacking
vivacity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry
- adjective lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
Etymologies
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Examples
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Home Rule than that kind of sapless Nationalism, astonishingly rare in
The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896
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Their development is arrested, or they are, from the beginning, poor creatures born of starvelings, and perhaps fated to give birth to pale, sapless beings like themselves.
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One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can balkanize Wikipedia's uppity, insipid lynch mob into an etiolated and sapless agglomeration.
Historical Christian Hairstyles Cliff Pickover 2008
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They drift apart now, halfheartedly nosing the stiff, sapless remnants of field hay; sometimes one will lift and gaze back toward the barn.
Two Poems 2005
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A sapless soul one lacking strength is another way of the Decider calling the Democrats cowards, yet they are honored by the torturers presence and applaud his continued name calling.
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They drift apart now, halfheartedly nosing the stiff, sapless remnants of field hay; sometimes one will lift and gaze back toward the barn.
Two Poems 2005
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Also we shall have to reject all the terrible and appalling names which describe the world below — Cocytus and Styx, ghosts under the earth, and sapless shades, and any similar words of which the very mention causes a shudder to pass through the inmost soul of him who hears them.
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There is, says Vanessa, a huge sapless aridity in the world out there that needs slaking:
In the Desert, Prime Time Leonard, John 2006
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The terrors and horrors of Cocytus and Styx, ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarean nomenclature, must vanish.
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In places two or three miles back from the coast there was a great deal of grass, that at a better season of the year would have been valuable; now it was dry and sapless.
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