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nerveless(dictionary)

nerveless (iou)



nerveless adjective. L17.
[from NERVE noun + -LESS.]
Lacking courage or vigour; weak, incapable of effort, lifeless. L17.
Liverpool Daily Post A nerveless diplomatist who only has to be menaced and he will yield. D. Lodge Vic's last action is normally to detach a book from Marjorie's nerveless fingers.
b. Of literary or artistic style: diffuse, insipid. M18.
Blackwood's Magazine Lord Byron retains the same nerveless and pointless kind of blank verse.
Anatomy, Botany, & Zoology. Having no nerves or nervures. L18.
Confident; not nervous. L20.
nervelessly adverb M19.
nervelessness noun M19.