strapless

1. 1.

   a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no shoulder straps

   Broaderdress

1. 1.

   having no straps

   “a strapless evening gown”

   Similarunsupported

Other forms of strapless

plural

straplesses·

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 strapless

What does strapless mean?

strapless means "a woman's garment that exposes the shoulders and has no shoulder straps". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in strapless?

strapless has 2 syllables: stra-pless. The stress falls on "stra".

Is strapless a common word?

strapless is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.