Dictionary

juiceless en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *yéwHs Latin iūs Old French jusbor. Middle English jus English juice Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English juiceless From juice + -less.

Meanings

1. Without juice or sap.
   • The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […] 1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
   • Stem fragile, dry, juiceless, base fibrillose, scarcely rooting. 1893, George Massee, British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology:
2. Dry, dull; lacking vivacity or spirit.
   • The three R's were abominably taught and the course of work was narrow and juiceless to the extreme. 1898, Popular Educator:
   • A bad-tempered person is a humorless, juiceless person. [...] What a humorless, juiceless, jaundiced pair they must have been! 1966, Robert James McCracken, What is Sin? What is Virtue?:

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Deriveds

juicelessness