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chinless en · ADJ

Etymology

From chin + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a (pronounced) chin.
    • 'Flook' by Trog': note the classic representation of the chinless wonder and the chinful wonderess. 1970, Bevis Hillier, Cartoons and caricatures, page 152:
    • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Three, Chapter 1, http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html Opposite Winston there sat a man with a chinless, toothy face exactly like that of some large, harmless rodent.
  2. (not-comparable) Having a weak or indecisive character; ineffectual or dim-witted.

Deriveds

chinlessness · chinless wonder

Synonyms

gormless

Translations (5)

eo senmentona (without a chin) · gv neusmegginagh (without a chin) · pt desqueixado (without a chin) · pl z cofniętym podbródkiem (without a chin) · pl nieudolny (ineffectual or dimwitted)