Definition of Pithless

1. a. Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.

Definition of Pithless

1. Adjective. Lacking strength or pith; weak. ¹

2. Adjective. Not cogent. ¹

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Definition of Pithless

1. lacking force [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pithless

pitheci
pithecoid
pithecoid theory
pithed
pithful
pithiatic
pithiatism
pithier
pithiest
pithily
pithiness
pithinesses
pithing
pithivier
pithiviers
pithless (current term)
pithlike
pithode
pithogues
pithoi
pithos
piths
pithsome
pithy
pitiable
pitiableness
pitiablenesses
pitiably
pitiamide

Literary usage of Pithless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Yea,' says he, ' it seems to me that there are many most pithless fellows gathered together here.' Thormod answers, ' Maybe that there are men here that ..."

2. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"Till after the death of that dried-up, pithless fellow, who was of no avail in chamber. Drupe= a dried-up, pithless fellow. See 1. 192, and note. 374. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... pithless, marrowless; from the Gaelic ... weak, marrowless, pithless, vapid, insipid; from the Gaelic ..."

4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... pithless, marrowless; from the Gaelic ... weak, marrowless, pithless, vapid, insipid; from the Gaelic ..."

5. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"... for regarding the medullated central cylinder, where it occurs among the Cryptogams, as derived from the dilatation of an originally pithless stele. ..."

6. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Yea,' says he, ' it seems to me that there are many most pithless fellows gathered together here.' Thormod answers, ' Maybe that there are men here that ..."

7. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"Till after the death of that dried-up, pithless fellow, who was of no avail in chamber. Drupe= a dried-up, pithless fellow. See 1. 192, and note. 374. ..."

8. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... pithless, marrowless; from the Gaelic ... weak, marrowless, pithless, vapid, insipid; from the Gaelic ..."

9. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"... pithless, marrowless; from the Gaelic ... weak, marrowless, pithless, vapid, insipid; from the Gaelic ..."

10. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"... for regarding the medullated central cylinder, where it occurs among the Cryptogams, as derived from the dilatation of an originally pithless stele. ..."

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