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Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

Without succession of the seasons.

Having no seat.

Without seed or seeds.

Unseemly. [Obs.] Spenser.

lf; unselfish. Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount As high as woman in her selfless mood. Tennyson.

Quality or state of being selfless.

cious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing. Shak. The senseless grave feels not your pious sorrows. Rowe. They were a senseless, stupid race. Swift. They would repent this their senseless perverseness wh…

Having no sex.

Being without shade; not shaded.

Having no shadow.

Destitute of shame; wanting modesty; brazen-faced; insensible to disgrace. "Such shameless bards we have." Pope. Shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. Shak.

ar form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope.

Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.

, a. Having no shell. J. Burroughs.

Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.

Destitute of a shield, or of protection. -- Shield"less*ly, adv. -- Shield"less*ness, n.

for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management. -- Shift"less*ly, adv. -- Shift"less*ness, n.

Destitute of ships. Gray.

Not having or wearing a shirt. Pope. -- Shirt"less*ness, n.