Headless Definition

hĕdlĭs
adjective
Without a head.
Webster's New World
Decapitated.
American Heritage
Without a leader or director.
Webster's New World
Stupid; brainless.
Webster's New World

(linguistics, of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word.

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Origin of Headless

  • From Middle English heedles, hevedles, from Old English hēafodlēas (“headless”), equivalent to head +‎ -less. Cognate with Dutch hoofdloos (“headless”), Danish hovedløs (“headless”), Swedish huvudlös (“headless”), Icelandic höfuðlaus (“headless”).

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Headless Sentence Examples

  • According to local tradition he was buried at Cefn-y-bedd ("the ridge of the grave") close by, but it is more likely that his headless trunk was taken to Abbey Cwmhir.

  • She fell hard on her backside and saw her attacker's headless body land beside her.

  • His headless corpse was later found in a ditch.

  • The eruciform larva of the Orthorrhapha leads on to the headless vermiform maggot of the Cyclorrhapha, and in the latter sub-order we find metamorphosis carried to its extreme point, the muscid flies being the most highly specialized of all the Hexapoda as regards structure, while their maggots are the most degraded of all insect larvae.

  • The Mac Mini is a headless computer not much bigger than a large paperback novel.

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HHEHEA

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