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Definition of Sapless
1. Adjective. Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality. "Her body looked sapless"
Similar to: Frail
Derivative terms: Debility, Feebleness, Infirmity, Weakness
2. Adjective. Destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry. "The rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"
Definition of Sapless
1. a. Destitute of sap; not juicy.
Definition of Sapless
1. Adjective. (context: of a plant) lacking in sap ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively of a person etc.) lacking vivacity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sapless
1. lacking vitality [adj]
Medical Definition of Sapless
1. 1. Destitute of sap; not juicy. 2. Dry, old; husky; withered; spiritless. "A somewhat sapless womanhood." "Now sapless on the verge of death he stands." (Dryden) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sapless
Literary usage of Sapless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Indian Forester (1893)
"sapless Cedar Block f aving. In a paper recently read before the Western Society
of Engineers and printed in the Journal of the Association of Engineering ..."
2. The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, A General View of the Rules and by John Sinclair (1818)
"... must be a sapless, and unwholesome diet, drained of all its nutritive juices;
living on such food, therefore, must exhaust the power and action of the ..."
3. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus by Aeschylus (1831)
"These blessings all reversed : a pallid cheek, Shrunk shoulders, chest contracted,
sapless limbs, A tongue that never rests, and mind debas'd By their vile ..."
4. Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments by Joseph Hall (1860)
"How able to defend me with the rod of thy power, who hast thus brought fruit out
of the sapless rod of my profession ! That servant oI God is worthy to ..."
5. My Note Book by John MacGregor (1835)
"How glorious a change, for dram- drinkers and pigs, has been the substitution of
gin-making for the sapless business of transforming clay into crockery! ..."
6. The Indian Forester (1893)
"sapless Cedar Block f aving. In a paper recently read before the Western Society
of Engineers and printed in the Journal of the Association of Engineering ..."
7. The Code of Health and Longevity: Or, A General View of the Rules and by John Sinclair (1818)
"... must be a sapless, and unwholesome diet, drained of all its nutritive juices;
living on such food, therefore, must exhaust the power and action of the ..."
8. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus by Aeschylus (1831)
"These blessings all reversed : a pallid cheek, Shrunk shoulders, chest contracted,
sapless limbs, A tongue that never rests, and mind debas'd By their vile ..."
9. Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments by Joseph Hall (1860)
"How able to defend me with the rod of thy power, who hast thus brought fruit out
of the sapless rod of my profession ! That servant oI God is worthy to ..."
10. My Note Book by John MacGregor (1835)
"How glorious a change, for dram- drinkers and pigs, has been the substitution of
gin-making for the sapless business of transforming clay into crockery! ..."
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