Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no speed; slow; sluggish; not prosperous; unfortunate; unsuccessful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being without speed.
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- adjective Without
speed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was a speedless two-wheeler and provided very little resistance or exercise.
Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004
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The consciousness of this whole issue was at work below her thoughts; and her thoughts, from joy and dread, to the discomfort of doubt, raced faster than the car, speedless and headlong.
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933
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That hat, as she could see in the first sure speedless survey, had got the droops.
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933
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But the $1 middle infielders - and quite a few of the $10 MIs - are a powerless, speedless group.
Yahoo! Sports - Top News Andy Behrens 2010
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But the $1 middle infielders - and quite a few of the $10 MIs - are a powerless, speedless group.
Yahoo! Sports - Top News Andy Behrens 2010
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But the $1 middle infielders - and quite a few of the $10 MIs - are a powerless, speedless group.
Yahoo! Sports - Top News Andy Behrens 2010
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#prayforjustin to be hit by an elephant travelling at speedless than a minute ago via webandrew helloitsandrew
#prayforjustin to save us from a dull Friday afternoon Liz Kelly 2011
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a vanguard of fugitives from the field of battle, weary, broken men, many of them wounded, all of them terror-stricken, staggering in speedless haste with the last remnants of their strength into the shelter which it was their vain illusion the town would afford them.
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912
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