clewless
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English
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]clewless (comparative more clewless, superlative most clewless)
- Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)
- 1772, Thomas Hallie Delamayne, The Senators, page 40:
- And now the muse (with courage not her own, / But that which heav'n protects with Freedom's, throne) / Has dar'd a clew-less passage to explore […] .
- Clueless.
- 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “maiden”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:
- A young person of the unfair sex addicted to clewless conduct and views that madden to crime.
Adverb
[edit]clewless (comparative more clewless, superlative most clewless)
- Without a clew (thread to guide one's way through a maze)