strengthless

adjective

strength·​less

-thlə̇s

: having no strength

the strengthless dead

—A. E. Housman

strengthlessly adverb

strengthlessness noun

plural -es

Word History

Etymology

Middle English strentheles, from strenthe strength + -les -less

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