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headless

[ hed-lis ]

adjective

  1. without a head.
  2. having the head cut off; beheaded.
  3. having no leader or chief; leaderless.
  4. foolish; stupid:

    a headless argument.



ˈ³ó±ð²¹»å±ô±ð²õ²õ

/ ˈ³óÉ›»å±ôɪ²õ /

adjective

  1. without a head
  2. without a leader
  3. foolish or stupid
  4. prosody another word for catalectic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³ó±ð²¹»ål±ð²õ²õ·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of headless1

before 1000; Middle English he ( ve ) dles, Old English ³óŧ²¹´Ú´Ç»å±ôŧ²¹²õ. See head, -less
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"I really love living here and I don't want to leave, because then I will just be running around like a headless chicken, looking for somewhere affordable," she says.

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Most incongruously of all, outside a makeshift plastic doorway on a corner of the ground floor, next to piles of rubble and rubbish, stands a headless mannequin, wearing a wedding gown.

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For the first year and a half of the business, I was running around like a headless chicken.

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Who knows what prompted Camille Claudel, at 20, to take a blade to the clay model of her sculpture of a headless crouching nude, tilting to one side and balanced precariously on rough feet?

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In one corner the lanky, headless skeleton of a Quetzalcoatl appears ready to take flight.

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