toothless

English

Etymology

tooth +‎ -less

Adjective

toothless (comparative more toothless, superlative most toothless)

1. Having no teeth.

   a toothless old man

2. (figuratively) Weak, having no capability of enforcing something.

   The treaty was toothless in combatting climate change.

Synonyms

• edentulous

Related terms

• toothy
• voice of the toothless one

Translations

Having no teeth

• Czech: bezzubý (cs) m
• Finnish: hampaaton (fi)
• French: édenté (fr)
• Galician: desdentado (gl)
• German: zahnlos (de)
• Greek: άδοντος (el) (ádontos) m, (informal) φαφούτης (el) (fafoútis) m, ξεδοντιάρης (el) (xedontiáris) m
• Hungarian: fogatlan (hu)

• Italian: sdentato (it)
• Lithuanian: bedantis (lt)
• Polish: bezzębny (pl)
• Portuguese: banguelo (pt), desdentado (pt)
• Russian: беззубый (ru) (bezzúbyj)
• Scots: tuithless
• Spanish: desdentado
• Turkish: dişsiz (tr)

Being weak

• Czech: bezzubý (cs) m
• Finnish: hampaaton (fi)

• Greek: ξεδοντιάρης (el) (xedontiáris) m
• Russian: беззубый (ru) (bezzúbyj)