Associations to the word «Sleeveless»

Wiktionary

SLEEVELESS, adjective. Of a garment, having no sleeves.
SLEEVELESS, adjective. (obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.

Dictionary definition

SLEEVELESS, adjective. Having no sleeves; "sleeveless summer dresses".
SLEEVELESS, adjective. Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne