Wingless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having no, or only rudimentary, wings. not-comparable

    "Soon the plate was full of wingless bats and batless wings. He covered the plate of broken bats and quickly unwrapped the plate of cat cookies. Snap, snap, snap went their tails. Snap, snap, snap went their legs."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking wings wordnet

Antonyms

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Example

More examples

"Wingless insects are less scary than winged ones."

Etymology

From wing + -less.

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