leafless
Of plants or trees, without leaves.
Adjective
- Of plants or trees, without leaves.
- In winter the leafless trees look cold.
- One afternoon, when all the party from the house were riding, Adeline sauntered under the leafless, hazel hedges, which separated the pleasure domain from the park. - 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XI, in Widows and...
- Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panneling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent...
Origin
From earlier leaveless, from Middle English leveles, equivalent to leaf + -less.