Standard Lemma guide

leafless

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • CMU ARPABET: L IY1 F L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of plants or trees, without leaves.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • In winter the leafless trees look cold.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective

Meaning 2

having no leaves

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: leafy

History

Etymology

From earlier leaveless, from Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.

Across languages

Translations

29 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أَمْرَد (ʔamrad) — without leaves
  • Arabic: أَجْرَد (ʔajrad) — without leaves
  • Arabic: أَمْرَط (ʔamraṭ) — without leaves
  • Danish: bladløs — without leaves
  • Dutch: bladerloos — without leaves
  • Dutch: bladloos — without leaves
  • Esperanto: senfolia — without leaves
  • Finnish: lehdetön — without leaves
  • French: effeuillé — without leaves
  • German: blattlos — without leaves
  • German: blätterlos — without leaves
  • Greek: άφυλλος (áfyllos) — without leaves
  • Ancient Greek: ἄφυλλος (áphullos) — without leaves
  • Hindi: अपर्ण (aparṇ) — without leaves
  • Hungarian: levéltelen — without leaves
  • Hungarian: lombtalan — without leaves
  • Hungarian: kopár — without leaves
  • Indonesian: ranggas — without leaves
  • Ingrian: lehetöin — without leaves
  • Ingrian: paljas — without leaves
  • Italian: afillo — without leaves
  • Latin: infrons — without leaves
  • Polish: bezlistny — without leaves
  • Scottish Gaelic: gun duille — without leaves
  • Scottish Gaelic: gun duilleag — without leaves
  • Scottish Gaelic: lom — without leaves
  • Spanish: áfilo — without leaves
  • Spanish: afilo — without leaves
  • Swedish: bladlös — without leaves
Real reading context

leafless in complete knowledge articles