sleeveless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective having no sleeves
    • sleeveless summer dresses
  2. adjective satellite unproductive of success
    fruitless; vain; bootless; futile.
    • a fruitless search
    • futile years after her artistic peak
    • a sleeveless errand
    • a vain attempt

WordNet

Sleeve"less adjective
Etymology
AS. slfleás.
Definitions
  1. Having no sleeves.
  2. Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. Obs. Shak.
    The vexation of a sleeveless errand. Bp. Warburton.

Webster 1913