toothless

English

Etymology

From Middle English toþeles, from Old English tōþlēas; equivalent to tooth +‎ -less.

Adjective

toothless (comparative more toothless, superlative most toothless)

Having no teeth.
a toothless old man
(figuratively) Weak, having no capability of enforcing something.
The treaty was toothless in combatting climate change.

Synonyms

edentulous

Related terms

toothlessness
toothy
voice of the toothless one

Translations

Having no teeth

Bulgarian: беззъб (bezzǎb)
Czech: bezzubý (cs) m
Finnish: hampaaton (fi)
French: édenté (fr)
Galician: desdentado
German: zahnlos (de)
Greek: άδοντος m (ádontos), (informal) φαφούτης (el) m (fafoútis), ξεδοντιάρης (el) m (xedontiáris)
Hungarian: fogatlan (hu)
Icelandic: tannlaus (is)
Inuktitut: ᑭᒍᑎᖃᖏᑦᑐᖅ (kigutiqangittuq)
Italian: sdentato (it)
Latvian: bezzobains m, bezzobaina f
Lithuanian: bedantis

Norwegian:
Bokmål: tannløs, tannlaus

Nynorsk: tannlaus
Pohnpeian: aupwahpw
Polish: bezzębny (pl)
Portuguese: banguelo (pt), desdentado (pt)
Romanian: știrb (ro), edentat (ro)
Russian: беззу́бый (ru) (bezzúbyj)
Scots: tuithless
Spanish: desdentado (es), edéntulo
Swedish: tandlös (sv)
Tagalog: ngubngob
Turkish: dişsiz (tr)

Being weak

Czech: bezzubý (cs) m
Finnish: hampaaton (fi)
Greek: ξεδοντιάρης (el) m (xedontiáris)
Italian: inefficace (it), impotente (it)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tannløs, tannlaus

Nynorsk: tannlaus

Russian: беззу́бый (ru) (bezzúbyj)
Swedish: tandlös (sv)

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