sapless

Other forms of sapless

comparative

saplesser·

superlative

saplessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sapless

What does sapless mean?

sapless means "lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sapless?

sapless has 2 syllables: sa-pless. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for sapless?

Close synonyms include decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sapless a common word?

sapless is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.