toothless

English

A toothless girl

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”).

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

• toothlessness
• toothy
• voice of the toothless one

Translations

Having no teeth

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

  Ancient: νωδός (nōdós)

• Hungarian: fogatlan (hu)
• Icelandic: tannlaus (is)
• Inuktitut: ᑭᒍᑎᖃᖏᑦᑐᖅ (kicotiqangittoq)
• Irish: carballach, mantach
• Italian: sdentato (it)
• Latin: ēdentulus
• Latvian: bezzobains m, bezzobaina f
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• Lithuanian: bedantis
• Maori: niho more, niho ngore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tannløs, tannlaus

  Nynorsk: tannlaus

• Pohnpeian: aupwahpw
• Polish: bezzębny (pl)
• 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)

Being weak

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

  Bokmål: tannløs, tannlaus

  Nynorsk: tannlaus

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• Russian: беззу́бый (ru) (bezzúbyj)
• Swedish: tandlös (sv)

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