feellessadj.

Brit.

/ˈfiːlləs/, U.S.

/ˈfi(l)ləs/, Scottish English

/ˈfilləs/

Forms: 1600s feeless, 1700s– feelless.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: feel n., -less suffix.

Etymology: < feel n. + -less suffix. Compare German fühllos (1641).Compare Old English fēlelēas without feeling, insensible (in an isolated attestation; apparently < either feel v. or -fēle (in gefēle tender, sensitive; < y- prefix + the base of feel v. + Old English -e , suffix forming adjectives) + -less suffix).

Originally Scottish. Now rare.

Without feeling, emotion, or sensitivity; numb, insensible.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective]

unfeelingc1000

dead?c1225

unwitlessc1225

insensiblec1400

unfeelablec1400

unfredeablec1450

insensate?1520

blatea1522

deaf?1527

unsensible1531

inanimatea1555

senseless1557

unsensate1561

sleeping1562

insensitive1610

unsensitive1610

torpid1613

inanimated1646

torpent1647

unperceptive1668

feelless1684

insentient1764

unsentient1768

sensationless1824

apathic1835

non-sensitive1836

zombie-like1932

zombie-esque1946

zomboid1963

zombied1972

1684 J. Semple Let. in Cloud of Witnesses (1751) 252 My thumbs, they are not very sore, only they are something feeless.

1724 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden To Rdr. p. xxviii That dear-bought Testimony..now let so easily slip through our slippry, feeble, feelless Fingers.

1820 Marmaiden of Clyde xxi, in Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 423 I..feelless lay, while the laidlie droich Perform'd his lord's commands.

1842 tr. F. Schiller in King's College Mag. Feb. 434 Why am I so feelless [G. fühllos]? in this tumult of delight, so cold?

1919 C. L. Jordan Trench Tales 36 So I grabbed his feelless flapper, an' ther Sargint sez ter me: ‘Don't forgit ter use yer bay'net, Corp'ral Jones,’ he sez, sez he.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	feelless
释义	feellessadj. Brit. /ˈfiːlləs/, U.S. /ˈfi(l)ləs/, Scottish English /ˈfilləs/ Forms: 1600s feeless, 1700s– feelless. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: feel n., -less suffix. Etymology: < feel n. + -less suffix. Compare German fühllos (1641).Compare Old English fēlelēas without feeling, insensible (in an isolated attestation; apparently < either feel v. or -fēle (in gefēle tender, sensitive; < y- prefix + the base of feel v. + Old English -e , suffix forming adjectives) + -less suffix). Originally Scottish. Now rare. Without feeling, emotion, or sensitivity; numb, insensible. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > [adjective] unfeelingc1000 dead?c1225 unwitlessc1225 insensiblec1400 unfeelablec1400 unfredeablec1450 insensate?1520 blatea1522 deaf?1527 unsensible1531 inanimatea1555 senseless1557 unsensate1561 sleeping1562 insensitive1610 unsensitive1610 torpid1613 inanimated1646 torpent1647 unperceptive1668 feelless1684 insentient1764 unsentient1768 sensationless1824 apathic1835 non-sensitive1836 zombie-like1932 zombie-esque1946 zomboid1963 zombied1972 1684 J. Semple Let. in Cloud of Witnesses (1751) 252 My thumbs, they are not very sore, only they are something feeless. 1724 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden To Rdr. p. xxviii That dear-bought Testimony..now let so easily slip through our slippry, feeble, feelless Fingers. 1820 Marmaiden of Clyde xxi, in Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 423 I..feelless lay, while the laidlie droich Perform'd his lord's commands. 1842 tr. F. Schiller in King's College Mag. Feb. 434 Why am I so feelless [G. fühllos]? in this tumult of delight, so cold? 1919 C. L. Jordan Trench Tales 36 So I grabbed his feelless flapper, an' ther Sargint sez ter me: ‘Don't forgit ter use yer bay'net, Corp'ral Jones,’ he sez, sez he. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1684
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