juiceless
adjEtymology From juice + -less.
1
Without juice or sap.
- The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:
- Stem fragile, dry, juiceless, base fibrillose, scarcely rooting.1893, George Massee, British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology:
2
Dry, dull; lacking vivacity or spirit.
- The three R's were abominably taught and the course of work was narrow and juiceless to the extreme.1898, Popular Educator:
- A bad-tempered person is a humorless, juiceless person. [...] What a humorless, juiceless, jaundiced pair they must have been!1966, Robert James McCracken, What is Sin? What is Virtue?:
- Derived terms
- juicelessness