Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sleeveless"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sleeveless \Sleeve"less\, a. [AS. sl?fle['a]s.]
1. Having no sleeves.
2. Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable;
profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] --Shak.
The vexation of a sleeveless errand. --Bp.
Warburton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sleeveless
adj 1: having no sleeves; "sleeveless summer dresses" [ant: {sleeved}]
2: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years
after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain
attempt" [syn: {bootless}, {fruitless}, {futile}, {vain}]
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