adj
Meaning 1
Without shoes; not wearing shoes
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- He ran shoeless from the burning house.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
shoeless
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Meaning 2
without shoes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the barefoot boy
- shoeless Joe Jackson
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: barefoot, barefooted
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English sholes, scholes, equivalent to shoe + -less. Compare Dutch schoenloos (“shoeless”), German schuhlos (“shoeless”), Old Norse skólaus (“shoeless”).
Across languages
Translations
9 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 沒有鞋子 /没有鞋子 (méiyǒu xiézi) — without shoes
- Esperanto: senŝua — without shoes
- Finnish: kengätön — without shoes
- Greek: απαπούτσωτος (apapoútsotos) — without shoes
- Icelandic: á sokkaleistunum — without shoes
- Spanish: descalzo — without shoes
- Swedish: skolös — without shoes
- Swedish: oskodd — without shoes
- Swedish: barfota — without shoes