toothless

English

Etymology

From Middle English totheles, toþeles, from Old English tōþlēas, from Proto-Germanic *tanþlausaz (“toothless”), equivalent to tooth +‎ -less. Cognate with Dutch tandeloos (“toothless”), German Low German tannlos (“toothless”), German zahnlos (“toothless”), Danish tandløs (“toothless”), Swedish tandlös (“toothless”), Icelandic tannlaus (“toothless”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuθləs/, /ˈtuθlɪs/

Adjective

toothless (comparative more toothless, superlative most toothless)

1. Having no teeth.

   a toothless old man

2. (figuratively) Weak; having no ability to enforce something.

   The treaty was toothless because of the lack of participation from the undersigned.

   • Template:RQ:Jonson The Entertainment at Althorp

     Not tell? ha! ha! I could smile / At this old and toothless wile.

Synonyms

• edentate
• edentulous
• teethless
• See also Thesaurus:weak

Related terms

• toothlessness
• toothy
• voice of the toothless one

Translations

Having no teeth

• Bikol Central: tipo (bcl)
• Bulgarian: беззъб (bezzǎb)
• Czech: bezzubý (cs)
• Danish: tandløs (da)
• Finnish: hampaaton (fi)
• French: édenté (fr)
• Galician: desdentado, fanado
• German: zahnlos (de)
• Greek: άδοντος (ádontos), (informal) φαφούτης (el) (fafoútis), ξεδοντιάρης (el) (xedontiáris)

  Ancient: νωδός (nōdós)

• Hungarian: fogatlan (hu)
• Icelandic: tannlaus (is)
• Inuktitut: ᑭᒍᑎᖃᖏᑦᑐᖅ (kicotiqangittoq)
• Irish: carballach, mantach
• Italian: sdentato (it)
• Kazakh: тіссіз (tıssız)
• Latin: ēdentulus
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• Latvian: bezzobains
• Lithuanian: bedantis
• Macedonian: беззаб (bezzab), беззабен (bezzaben)
• Maori: niho more, niho ngore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tannløs, tannlaus

  Nynorsk: tannlaus

• Pohnpeian: aupwahpw
• Polish: bezzębny (pl), bezzęby (pl) (dated)
• Portuguese: banguelo (pt), desdentado (pt)
• Romanian: știrb (ro), edentat (ro)
• Russian: беззу́бый (ru) (bezzúbyj)
• Scots: tuithless
• Spanish: desdentado (es), edéntulo
• Swedish: tandlös (sv)
• Tagalog: ngubngob
• Turkish: dişsiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: беззу́бий (uk) (bezzúbyj)

Being weak

• Czech: bezzubý (cs)
• Finnish: hampaaton (fi)
• Georgian: უკბილო (uḳbilo)
• Greek: ξεδοντιάρης (el) (xedontiáris)
• Italian: inefficace (it), impotente (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tannløs, tannlaus

  Nynorsk: tannlaus

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• Russian: беззу́бый (ru) (bezzúbyj)
• Swedish: tandlös (sv)
• Ukrainian: беззу́бий (uk) (bezzúbyj)

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