Definition of Fingerless

1. Adjective. Not having or having lost fingers.

Antonyms: Fingered

Definition of Fingerless

1. Adjective. Having no fingers ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fingerless

fingerful
fingerfuls
fingerguard
fingerguards
fingerhold
fingerholds
fingerings
fingerite
fingerless (current term)
fingerlessness
fingerlike
fingerling
fingerlings
fingermark
fingermarks
fingernail
fingernail moon
fingernail moons
fingernailed
fingernails
fingerpad
fingerpads
fingerpaint

Literary usage of Fingerless

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

1. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
"fingerless ... For outside work these thick gloves were too inconvenient; then fingerless woollen mittens were ..."

2. Insect Life: Souvenirs of a Naturalist, J.-H. Fabre by Jean-Henri Fabre (1901)
"... favourable to their work, little by little they gained a superiority over the less favoured ones, founded a race by transmitting their fingerless stumps ..."

3. Red Eve by H. Rider Haggard (2001)
"Nothing remained visible except the white fingerless gloves—why were they fingerless, and what lay beneath them? Hugh wondered— and the white shoes. ..."

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