Meaning of NERVELESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'nurvlis
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- [adj] marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool"; "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament"
- [adj] lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| | Synonyms: | | composed, cool, coolheaded, feeble, powerless, weak |
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| | Definition: | | \Nerve"less\, a.
1. Destitute of nerves.
2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak;
powerless.
A kingless people for a nerveless state. --Byron.
Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream.
--Hawthorne.
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| | Related Terms: | | anemic, asthenic, bloodless, calm, castrated, chicken, coolheaded, cowardly, debilitated, demasculinized, devitalized, drooping, droopy, dull, effeminized, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enervated, etiolated, eunuchized, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, floppy, gelded, gone, gutless, imbecile, impotent, inexcitable, languid, languorous, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, pithless, pooped, powerless, relaxed, rock-steady, rubbery, sapless, sinewless, slack, soft, spineless, steady, steady-handed, steady-nerved, steel-nerved, strengthless, strong-nerved, unblenching, unblinking, unfaltering, unflinching, unhardened, unmanned, unnerved, unnervous, unquivering, unsexed, unshaken, unshaky, unshrinking, unstrained, unstrung, untremulous, unwavering, weak, weakly, without a tremor |
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