headless
adjective
head·less ˈhed-ləs 
1
a
: having no head
b
: having the head cut off : beheaded
2
: having no chief
3
: lacking good sense or prudence : foolish
headlessness noun
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The figure lay across a stone platform, atop a snake, with its feet extended into the lap of a smaller, headless female figure representing his wife, the goddess Lakshmi. 
Nicole Sadek, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022 Authorities have arrested three men for murdering a 33-year-old woman whose headless body was pulled from Puget Sound in Washington state more than 15 years ago. Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022 The restaurant serves an umami-rich take on the green goddess salad in a headless porcelain bust, which must have been a flower vase in its former life. Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2022 Today, there are headless browsers that can convincingly perform extremely sophisticated tasks at scale, including filling out forms and completing purchases. Guy Tytunovich, Forbes, 24 June 2022 The headless body was buried in a lime pit, and the head was impaled on a spike and exposed for more than two decades at the south end of Westminster Hall. Keith Thomas, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 Are the potential benefits of headless commerce right for you? Zohar Gilad, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021 Her signal motif—a headless woman—appears again, arranged in a multitude of ways: veiled, winged, hovering in the clouds, and jutting, phallus-like, from a horse. Naib Mian, The New Yorker, 1 June 2022 The experimentation benefits of headless commerce and flexible infrastructure apply to non-developers teams, too. Jim Stirewalt, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022 See More
Nicole Sadek, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022 Authorities have arrested three men for murdering a 33-year-old woman whose headless body was pulled from Puget Sound in Washington state more than 15 years ago. Chris Harris, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022 The restaurant serves an umami-rich take on the green goddess salad in a headless porcelain bust, which must have been a flower vase in its former life. Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Aug. 2022 Today, there are headless browsers that can convincingly perform extremely sophisticated tasks at scale, including filling out forms and completing purchases. Guy Tytunovich, Forbes, 24 June 2022 The headless body was buried in a lime pit, and the head was impaled on a spike and exposed for more than two decades at the south end of Westminster Hall. Keith Thomas, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 Are the potential benefits of headless commerce right for you? Zohar Gilad, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021 Her signal motif—a headless woman—appears again, arranged in a multitude of ways: veiled, winged, hovering in the clouds, and jutting, phallus-like, from a horse. Naib Mian, The New Yorker, 1 June 2022 The experimentation benefits of headless commerce and flexible infrastructure apply to non-developers teams, too. Jim Stirewalt, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a