Adjective: mightless
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more mightless |
| Superlative | most mightless |
Sample Sentences
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So the mightless Tannenbaum, with two cups of wine in hand, plus a burger, chased Lilly back down as Ezra scooted into the shadows, leaving her to face the mayor all by herself. [2004, Dianne Drake, Lilly's Law, page 153:]
Adjectives inflected like mightless
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English mightles, from Old English mihtlēas, mihtelēas, from Proto-Germanic *mahtilausaz; equivalent to might + -less. Cognate with Scots michtles, Saterland Frisian machtloos, West Frisian machteleas, Dutch machteloos, German Low German machtlos, German machtlos, Swedish maktlös, Icelandic máttlaus. See: Dutch Adjectives '
machteloos', German Adjectives '
machtlos', Swedish Adjectives '
maktlös'.
Verbs referencing "mightless"
Swedish Adjectives
maktlös.