weaponless

1. 1.

   without a weapon

   Similarunarmed

Questions about weaponless

What does weaponless mean?

weaponless means "without a weapon".

How many syllables are in weaponless?

weaponless has 4 syllables and divides as we-a-pon-less under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is weaponless a common word?

weaponless 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.