Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of ideas.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of an idea.

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  • adjective Devoid of ideas.

Etymologies

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idea +‎ -less

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Examples

  • When we observe the dwindling Republican legislative group in congress and watch Boehner and McConnel and associates attack the efforts of the newly elected president to do something to not only help the economy but to build a future for America -- rather than just fighting vague, poorly defined enemy boogey men -- we see exactly the negative, risk aversive, hopeless, idealess mindset Brooks describes.

    Rob Kall: It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario 2009

  • When we observe the dwindling Republican legislative group in congress and watch Boehner and McConnel and associates attack the efforts of the newly elected president to do something to not only help the economy but to build a future for America -- rather than just fighting vague, poorly defined enemy boogey men -- we see exactly the negative, risk aversive, hopeless, idealess mindset Brooks describes.

    Printing: It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario 2009

  • When we observe the dwindling Republican legislative group in congress and watch Boehner and McConnel and associates attack the efforts of the newly elected president to do something to not only help the economy but to build a future for America -- rather than just fighting vague, poorly defined enemy boogey men -- we see exactly the negative, risk aversive, hopeless, idealess mindset Brooks describes.

    It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario 2009

  • Granted, many feel Republicans don't deserve it (and in many ways they don't), but it's better than a vote for the idealess anti-war tin-foil hat wearing left.

    Sound Politics: Republicans Picking Up Steam As Election Day Nears 2006

  • And to a gullible, clueless, idealess quasi-government board with money to burn, it's just the kind of pie-in-the-sky music they want to listen to. 1,800 workers.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • They think that reading tea leaves in the polling reports, thinking small and totally non-ideologically so you will offend no one especially conservatives, and then coming up with a numbingly wonky laundry list of idealess nano-policies is the ultimate in leadership.

    Firedoglake » Image May Not Be Everything…. 2006

  • Hamilton strikes me as a colorless, idealess, generally spineless, blend into the background phantom who has no real ideas hence he goes with the flow and never dares to ruffle any feathers or make any waves.

    Remember, the Democrats have a special obligation to please people like me. Ann Althouse 2006

  • Today, however, they - and we - are stuck with the idealess gang they helped elect.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • At such times a man is indeed helpless, and Drake stood overwhelmed and idealess.

    Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

  • Hearthless, friendless, idealess, almost soulless! and so ignorant, as not even to seem to know whether he had ever heard of a Redeemer, or seen his written word.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829 Various

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