stringlessadj.
/ˈstrɪŋlɪs/ Having no string; lacking strings.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [adjective] > attributes of bow
unbent1513
torquesa1568
stringless1597
nervous1638
strung1695
unbended1726
unstrung1744
self1801
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > [adjective] > not
unstrung1598
stringless1826
unchorded1859
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [adjective] > loose, unfastened, or untied > not fastened in other specific manner
unpinneda1393
unlaced1447
unnailed?1572
unrooted1604
ungirthed1628
unlatched1651
unchained1664
unlooped1716
unbolted1793
unbelted1814
unhinged1824
unclasped1825
unpulleyed1839
strapless1846
unwelded1846
unroped1849
unhasped1856
unwhipped1867
unbuckled1874
unsoldered1876
stringless1882
unspiked1902
unclipped1922
unzippered1936
unzipped1940
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 150 His tongue is now a stringlesse instrument. View more context for this quotation
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 202 [The porcupine] Who string-les shoots so many arrowes out.
1826 A. A. Watts Poet's Den 89 A broken, stringless lute.
1882 J. Payn Thicker than Water iii He had a frameless, stringless glass, which stuck in his eye with the tenacity of a limpet.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. xviii. 281 Her hat being stringless had flown far away.
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