sleeveless

English

Alternative forms

• sleaveless

Etymology

From Middle English slevelees, sleveles, from Old English slīeflēas (“sleeveless”), equivalent to sleeve +‎ -less.

Adjective

sleeveless (not comparable)

1. Of a garment, having no sleeves.
2. (obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, V. iv. 8:

     might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.

   The vexation of a sleeveless errand. — Bishop Warburton.

Translations

of a garment, having no sleeves

• Catalan: sense mànigues
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 冇袖 (mou⁵ zau⁶)

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 無袖／无袖, ^{(please verify)} 无袖 (wú xiù)

• Finnish: hihaton (fi)
• German: ärmellos (de)
• Greek: αμάνικος (el) m (amánikos)
• Hungarian: ujjatlan (hu)
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• Irish: gan mhuinchillí
• Korean: 민소매 (ko) (minsomae)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ermeløs

  Nynorsk: ermelaus

• Old English: slīeflēas
• Russian: безрука́вный (ru) (bezrukávnyj)
• Welsh: dilewys