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Definition of Clueless
1. Adjective. Totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring.
Definition of Clueless
1. Adjective. Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clueless
1. hopelessly confused or ignorant [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clueless
Literary usage of Clueless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1908)
"... or have some inkling as to desiderata, we offer our catalogs with their network
of roads all leading to Rome : but what can the clueless person do? ..."
2. Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley (1922)
"He was fumbling his way along this clueless labyrinth of suppositions when the
clock struck twelve. On the last stroke, like an automaton released by the ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"... do models, and so on into the pleasant you prefer the drawing-rooms of clueless
labyrinth of metaphysical London to the log-house by the criticism on ..."
4. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1849)
"... with its hundred gates—.aad clueless caves That wind beneath the ground—and
shafts that mark Where valor died—or more ignobly fell On Pleasure's lap as ..."
5. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Nepenthe, printed privately in 1835, but not published till 1897, is a failure
of real nobility, clueless, and staggering under too great a pomp and ..."
6. Adventure Guide to St. Martin & St. Barts by Lynne M. Sullivan (2003)
"... to get onto the beach is through the hotels and, while everyone knows all
beaches are public, the guard at the front gate may pretend to be clueless. ..."
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