foisonlessadj.
/ˈfɔɪz(ə)nləs/, U.S. /ˈfɔɪz(ə)nləs/, Scottish English /ˈfɔɪz(ə)nləs/ Chiefly Scottish.
Wanting substance, strength, or ‘sap’; weak, ineffective, both in a material and immaterial sense. Of grass: Wanting in succulence or nourishing properties.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > lacking resourcefulness
unshifty1570
shiftless1584
boss1599
helpless1620
unshiftable1622
self-helpless1634
foisonless1721
feckless1773
resourceless1787
weirdless1821
hopeless1854
fibreless1864
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [adjective] > ineffective
deadc1380
virtuelessa1393
uneffectuous1549
inefficace1570
limping1577
unprevailing1604
inficient1609
weak1609
unofficious1611
penny farthing1615
invalidable1634
invalid1635
unprevalent1640
ineffectible1650
ineffective1651
inefficacious1658
insignificant1661
uneffective1670
popgun1690
foible1715
unefficacious1744
inefficient1750
ineffectual1785
effete1790
foisonlessc1817
puttering1857
non-effective1862
non-efficient1863
shaftless1881
powder puff1911
fouled-up1942
the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > food plant or vegetable > [adjective] > neither succulent nor nourishing
foisonless1864
the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [adjective] > not nourishing (of fodder)
foisonless1864
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 104 Fair Folk is ay Fisonless.
1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 652 An he is but a fusionless carlie.
c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches I. 328 Old rusty and fizenless sword.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. vi. 155 And puir, thin, fusionless skink it was.
1837 T. Carlyle Diamond Necklace i, in Fraser's Mag. Jan. 2/2 Our very Biographies, how stiff-starched, foisonless, hollow.
1864 Athenæum No. 1921. 234/2 The fusionless bog hay.
1870 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Sept. 11 These fusionless idlers who never derange themselves for anything.
1888 R. F. D. Palgrave in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 745 The ‘wild~fire’ proved a very fizzenless mixture.
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