Headless

//ˈhɛdləs//

Synonyms for "headless" (39 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (8)

brainless acephalic acephalous crownless decapitated

Adjective(2 words)

acephalic beheaded

Adjective(1 words)

brainless

Strong matches (12)

Adjective(3 words)

decapitated deheaded leaderless

foolish ignorant inept insensate irrational lackbrained lean-minded lean-witted mindless

Related words (19)

not bright of little brain pea brained pea-brained pin-brained reasonless senseless slackminded slackwitted topless ungifted unintellectual unintelligent unreasoning untalented unthinking unwise witless

Adjective(1 words)

unheaded

Related word relations

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8 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

headed

Synonyms

1 entries

brainless

coordinate

1 entries

rudderless

derived

12 entries

Headless Horsewoman headless browser headless chicken monster headless genitive headless horseman headless lounge headless over heels headlessly headlessness like a headless chicken like a headless chook run around like a headless chicken

derived from

2 entries

head less

has context

2 entries

computing linguistics

related to

12 entries

decapitate graphical user interface head heedless input device keyboard leadership monitor morpheme mouse output device word

similar

7 entries

acephalous beheaded decapitated stupid unintelligent

Translations

25 translations across 20 languages.

Ancient Greek

1 entries

ἀκέφαλος adj (without a head)

Catalan

1 entries

acèfal adj (without a head)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

無頭的 /无头的 adj (without a head)

Czech

1 entries

bezhlavý adj (without a head)

Esperanto

1 entries

senkapa adj (without a head)

Finnish

1 entries

päätön adj (without a head)

French

3 entries

acéphale adj (without a head)
décapité adj (without a head)
sans tête adj (without a head)

German

1 entries

kopflos adj (without a head)

Greek

1 entries

ακέφαλος adj (without a head)

Ido

1 entries

senkapa adj (without a head)

Lithuanian

1 entries

begalvis adj (without a head)

Middle English

1 entries

heedles adj (without a head)

Polish

1 entries

bezgłowy adj (without a head)

Portuguese

1 entries

acéfalo adj (without a head)

Russian

2 entries

безголо́вый adj (without a head)
обезгла́вленный adj (without a head)

Scots

1 entries

heidless adj (without a head)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

bezglav adj (without a head)
безглав adj (without a head)

Tamil

1 entries

தலை இல்லா adj (without a head)

Turkish

1 entries

başsız adj (without a head)

Welsh

2 entries

di-ben adj (without a head)
pengoll adj (without a head)

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Like a headless chicken.

Source: tatoeba (1592408)

Tom is running around like a headless chicken.

Source: tatoeba (1600592)

He is running around like a headless chicken.

Source: tatoeba (3807676)

The horseman is headless.

Source: tatoeba (4336604)

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