Definitions for sapless

sapless sap·less

Spelling: [sap-lis]
IPA: /ˈsæp lɪs/

Sapless is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in sapless (aelpsss).

Definitions for sapless

adjective

  1. without sap; withered; dry:
  2. lacking vitality or spirit; insipid.

Origin of sapless

First recorded in 1585-95; sap1 + -less

Examples for sapless

It will all turn to stubble and sapless rigidity before his eyes.

He picked a bennet from the grass and bit it, but it was sapless, dried by the summer heat.

Everything was no more than dried flowers, sapless, brittle and colourless.

A sapless tree is not a living one, but dead; a prayerless Christian cannot be.

Repression when successful induced a nerveless, sapless type.

But that happens when you are hoary and sapless, and when nothing under the sun delights you.'

There is life always, even in the dry fir-cone that looks so brown and sapless.

He came to meet them on his crutches, a smile on his yellow, sapless face.

Was not my old age turned into a sapless tree, a poisoned spring?

They may be the same plants, but they are alive, not pressed and sapless.

Word Value for sapless
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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