saplessadj.

/ˈsaplɪs/

Etymology: < sap n.¹ + -less suffix.

a. Of plants, wood, etc.: Destitute of sap; dry, withered.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having fluid or sap > not juicy or lacking sap

sapless1594

unsappya1722

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 12 Pyth-lesse Armes, like to a withered Vine, That droupes his sappe-lesse Branches to the ground.

1678 H. Vaughan Thalia Rediviva 49 Flow'rs that in Sun-shines riot still, Dye scorch'd and sapless.

1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 Poetry 225 Sapless wood but makes a blaze.

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 80 Their summits..till then, had never been covered, but with sapless thistles and fern.

1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 71 Like sapless leaflets..Frozen upon December's bough.

1892 J. M. Walsh Tea 161 But if old and ‘sapless’ they [the tea leaves] will be found rough and ‘chaffy’ to the touch.

figurative.1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas Ep. Ded. sig. A iij The saplesse frutes of greene youth, & pithlesse blossomes of a simple Authors vnripe wit.

b. Of soil: Dry, without moisture; also barren, unproductive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > infertile

unbearingc825

geasonOE

unkindc1330

barren1377

unfructuousa1382

poora1387

leanc1420

exile?1440

salt1535

unfruitful?1542

sterile1572

dead1577

unlusty1580

queasy1593

heartless1594

unfertile1596

emacerated1610

sapless1655

unprolific1672

uncivil1676

ungrateful1681

worn1681

teemless1687

unproductive1725

poorish1767

ill-conditioned1796

scanty1797

rammelly1808

starve-acre1891

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. ii. 10 A dry, crumbling, sapless and unmingled earth.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 37 These Troglodites well knowing how little advantage that great Monarch would get by entring their sapless Country, scornfully refused it.

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xvii. 163 I live, as it were, on a rock, barren, and herbless, and sapless.

1895 S. D. F. Salmond Christian Doctr. Immortality ii. v. 262 His creative might will bring life out of the sapless dust of Sheol.

2. transferred and figurative.

a. Of persons: Lacking vital moisture, energy, or vigour. Also with reference to mental qualities: Lacking in character, insipid.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > not vigorous or lively

slackc900

sapless1598

unquickened1610

invital1650

down1873

the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid > of persons

sapless1598

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. viii. sig. G5 I am not saplesse, old, or rumatick.

c1604 Charlemagne (1938) i. 4 Theres not enoughe to cherrish a desyer lefte in hys saplesse nerves.

1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1656) (1 Cor.) 663 Such was that Sapless fellow Psal. 14. 1. that may have a disciplinary knowledge..but not an intuitive per speciem propriam.

1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet vi. 16 An unexperienced sapless Teacher.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 516 Now sapless on the verge of Death he stands.

1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 35 Hear ye the blast..Whose spirit shakes the sapless bones Of Slavery?

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 28 Ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarian nomenclature.

1903 Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 3/2 In ten years he was friendless, his children sapless and sensitive, his wife lonely.

b. Of age, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > weak with age > of age: attended by weakness

unwieldy1430

unwieldsome1567

saplessa1616

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > lacking vigour or energy

nesheOE

lustlessc1325

dowfa1522

unlikely1578

thowless1721

sapless1864

anergic1874

entropic1893

thewless1895

slowed-down1905

slowed-up1912

greyed-out1946

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. v. 4 When saplesse Age, and weake vnable limbes Should bring thy Father to his drooping Chaire.

1618 G. Strode Anat. Mortalitie 161 The euill dayes of sickly and saplesse old age.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty in Poems (new ed.) II. 84 The staring eye glazed o'er with sapless days.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 318 A somewhat sapless womanhood.

c. Of immaterial things, ideas, sayings, etc.: Destitute of inner worth, insipid, trivial, pointless.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial

eathlyc890

lighteOE

littleOE

small?c1225

singlec1449

easy1474

triflous1509

naughty1526

slender1530

slight1548

shrimpish1549

slipper1567

truanta1572

toyous1581

trivious1583

mean1585

silly1587

nicea1594

puny?1594

puisne1598

pusill1599

whindling1601

sapless1602

non-significant1603

poor1603

unsignificant1603

flea-bite1605

perishing1605

lank1607

weightless1610

fonda1616

penny farthing1615

triviala1616

unweighty1621

transitory1637

twattling1651

inconsiderate1655

unserious1655

nugal1656

small drink1656

slighty1662

minute1668

paddling1679

snitling1682

retail1697

Lilliputian1726

vain1731

rattletrap1760

peppercornish1762

peppercorn1791

underling1804

venial1806

lightweight1809

floccinaucical1826

small-bore1833

minified1837

trantlum1838

piffling1848

tea-tabular1855

potty1860

whipping-snapping1861

tea-gardeny1862

quiddling1863

twaddling1863

fidgeting1865

penny ante1865

feather-weighted1870

jerkwater1877

midget1879

mimsy1880

shirttail1881

two-by-four1885

footle1894

skittery1905

footery1929

Mickey Mouse1931

chickenshit1934

minoritized1945

marginal1952

marginalized1961

tea-party1961

little league1962

marginalizing1977

minnowy1991

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iii. sig. B2^v Blowe hence these saplesse iestes.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 46 Pestring their heads with the saplesse dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 292 It is to make the Prophecy guilty of a sapless and useless Tautologie.

1732 D. Waterland Scripture Vindicated iii. 38 Those heartless, sapless Services, which had no Godliness in them, were not the Services which God required.

1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (1853) 408 The evangelical principles of the Reformation had begun to decline..into a dry and sapless orthodoxy.

1891 Academy 20 Aug. 171/2 Old stories and sapless anecdotes.

1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance 358 The growth of a kind of dull, parasitic, sapless language over the old stocks.

Derivatives

ˈsaplessness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > lack of sap

saplessness1851

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > weakness of immaterial things

weaknessa1300

feebleness1340

waterishnessa1603

faintnessa1716

flaccidity1778

saplessness1851

flabbiness1883

1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxvii. 307 The good in it, the life of it.., are Protestantism in its heart; the rigidity and saplessness are the Romanism of it.

1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 26 Now this saplessness shall flush to green.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

单词	sapless
释义	saplessadj. /ˈsaplɪs/ Etymology: < sap n.¹ + -less suffix. 1. a. Of plants, wood, etc.: Destitute of sap; dry, withered. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having fluid or sap > not juicy or lacking sap sapless1594 unsappya1722 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) ii. v. 12 Pyth-lesse Armes, like to a withered Vine, That droupes his sappe-lesse Branches to the ground. View more context for this quotation 1678 H. Vaughan Thalia Rediviva 49 Flow'rs that in Sun-shines riot still, Dye scorch'd and sapless. 1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 Poetry 225 Sapless wood but makes a blaze. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 80 Their summits..till then, had never been covered, but with sapless thistles and fern. 1819 P. B. Shelley Lines Euganean Hills in Rosalind & Helen 71 Like sapless leaflets..Frozen upon December's bough. 1892 J. M. Walsh Tea 161 But if old and ‘sapless’ they [the tea leaves] will be found rough and ‘chaffy’ to the touch. figurative.1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas Ep. Ded. sig. A iij The saplesse frutes of greene youth, & pithlesse blossomes of a simple Authors vnripe wit. b. Of soil: Dry, without moisture; also barren, unproductive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > infertile unbearingc825 geasonOE unkindc1330 barren1377 unfructuousa1382 poora1387 leanc1420 exile?1440 salt1535 unfruitful?1542 sterile1572 dead1577 unlusty1580 queasy1593 heartless1594 unfertile1596 emacerated1610 sapless1655 unprolific1672 uncivil1676 ungrateful1681 worn1681 teemless1687 unproductive1725 poorish1767 ill-conditioned1796 scanty1797 rammelly1808 starve-acre1891 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. ii. 10 A dry, crumbling, sapless and unmingled earth. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 37 These Troglodites well knowing how little advantage that great Monarch would get by entring their sapless Country, scornfully refused it. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham II. xvii. 163 I live, as it were, on a rock, barren, and herbless, and sapless. 1895 S. D. F. Salmond Christian Doctr. Immortality ii. v. 262 His creative might will bring life out of the sapless dust of Sheol. 2. transferred and figurative. a. Of persons: Lacking vital moisture, energy, or vigour. Also with reference to mental qualities: Lacking in character, insipid. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [adjective] > not vigorous or lively slackc900 sapless1598 unquickened1610 invital1650 down1873 the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious > bland or insipid > of persons sapless1598 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. viii. sig. G5 I am not saplesse, old, or rumatick. c1604 Charlemagne (1938) i. 4 Theres not enoughe to cherrish a desyer lefte in hys saplesse nerves. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1656) (1 Cor.) 663 Such was that Sapless fellow Psal. 14. 1. that may have a disciplinary knowledge..but not an intuitive per speciem propriam. 1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet vi. 16 An unexperienced sapless Teacher. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 516 Now sapless on the verge of Death he stands. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 35 Hear ye the blast..Whose spirit shakes the sapless bones Of Slavery? 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 28 Ghosts and sapless shades, and the rest of their Tartarian nomenclature. 1903 Daily Chron. 31 Oct. 3/2 In ten years he was friendless, his children sapless and sensitive, his wife lonely. b. Of age, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak > weak with age > of age: attended by weakness unwieldy1430 unwieldsome1567 saplessa1616 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > lacking vigour or energy nesheOE lustlessc1325 dowfa1522 unlikely1578 thowless1721 sapless1864 anergic1874 entropic1893 thewless1895 slowed-down1905 slowed-up1912 greyed-out1946 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. v. 4 When saplesse Age, and weake vnable limbes Should bring thy Father to his drooping Chaire. View more context for this quotation 1618 G. Strode Anat. Mortalitie 161 The euill dayes of sickly and saplesse old age. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty in Poems (new ed.) II. 84 The staring eye glazed o'er with sapless days. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 318 A somewhat sapless womanhood. c. Of immaterial things, ideas, sayings, etc.: Destitute of inner worth, insipid, trivial, pointless. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial eathlyc890 lighteOE littleOE small?c1225 singlec1449 easy1474 triflous1509 naughty1526 slender1530 slight1548 shrimpish1549 slipper1567 truanta1572 toyous1581 trivious1583 mean1585 silly1587 nicea1594 puny?1594 puisne1598 pusill1599 whindling1601 sapless1602 non-significant1603 poor1603 unsignificant1603 flea-bite1605 perishing1605 lank1607 weightless1610 fonda1616 penny farthing1615 triviala1616 unweighty1621 transitory1637 twattling1651 inconsiderate1655 unserious1655 nugal1656 small drink1656 slighty1662 minute1668 paddling1679 snitling1682 retail1697 Lilliputian1726 vain1731 rattletrap1760 peppercornish1762 peppercorn1791 underling1804 venial1806 lightweight1809 floccinaucical1826 small-bore1833 minified1837 trantlum1838 piffling1848 tea-tabular1855 potty1860 whipping-snapping1861 tea-gardeny1862 quiddling1863 twaddling1863 fidgeting1865 penny ante1865 feather-weighted1870 jerkwater1877 midget1879 mimsy1880 shirttail1881 two-by-four1885 footle1894 skittery1905 footery1929 Mickey Mouse1931 chickenshit1934 minoritized1945 marginal1952 marginalized1961 tea-party1961 little league1962 marginalizing1977 minnowy1991 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge i. iii. sig. B2^v Blowe hence these saplesse iestes. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 46 Pestring their heads with the saplesse dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 292 It is to make the Prophecy guilty of a sapless and useless Tautologie. 1732 D. Waterland Scripture Vindicated iii. 38 Those heartless, sapless Services, which had no Godliness in them, were not the Services which God required. 1850 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (1853) 408 The evangelical principles of the Reformation had begun to decline..into a dry and sapless orthodoxy. 1891 Academy 20 Aug. 171/2 Old stories and sapless anecdotes. 1897 W. P. Ker Epic & Romance 358 The growth of a kind of dull, parasitic, sapless language over the old stocks. Derivatives ˈsaplessness n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > dryness > [noun] > lack of sap saplessness1851 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > [noun] > weakness of immaterial things weaknessa1300 feebleness1340 waterishnessa1603 faintnessa1716 flaccidity1778 saplessness1851 flabbiness1883 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxvii. 307 The good in it, the life of it.., are Protestantism in its heart; the rigidity and saplessness are the Romanism of it. 1866 J. M. Neale Sequences & Hymns 26 Now this saplessness shall flush to green. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < adj.1594
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