Crossword-Solution: SAPLESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sapless | a. | Destitute of sap; not juicy. |
| Sapless | a. | Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SAPLESS | anagram | PASSELS |
We have 18 clues for the answer “SAPLESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like a dry maple | 1 answer |
| Like a Mensa convention? | 1 answer |
| Dry, as a tree | 1 answer |
| Dry, as a plant | 1 answer |
| Devoid of juice. | 1 answer |
| Characterizing Alfredo in "Traviata." | 1 answer |
| Without vitality | 2 answers |
| Deficient in energy | 2 answers |
| exsuccuous | 4 answers |
| Sere | 8 answers |
| Lacking energy | 10 answers |
| Lacking vitality | 10 answers |
| Jejune | 26 answers |
| Withered | 34 answers |
| Arid | 53 answers |
| innocuous | 61 answers |
| Feeble | 79 answers |
| Dry | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SAPLESS (5)
The English author, on the other hand, without supposing him less of a conjuror than the Northern Warlock, can, you observed, only have the liberty of selecting his subject amidst the dust of antiquity, where nothing was to be found but dry, sapless, mouldering, and disjointed bones, such as those which filled the valley of Jehoshaphat.
Also we shall have to reject all the terrible and appalling names describe the world below--Cocytus and Styx, ghosts under the earth, and sapless shades, and any similar words of which the very mention causes a shudder to pass through the inmost soul of him who hears them.
Nay, marvellous to tell, Lopped of its limbs, the olive, a mere stock, Still thrusts its root out from the sapless wood, And oft the branches of one kind we see Change to another's with no loss to rue, Pear-tree transformed the ingrafted apple yield, And stony cornels on the plum-tree blush.
Athos, with the coming of years, has declined too much into the preacher, and the preacher of a sapless creed; but d’Artagnan has mellowed into a man so witty, rough, kind and upright, that he takes the heart by storm.
They looked as if they had never known what youth or pleasure was, but had been the offspring of Nature's dotage, and always the gray, decrepit, sapless, miserable creatures, who now sat stooping round the doctor's table, without life enough in their souls or bodies to be animated even by the prospect of growing young again.
Quotes with SAPLESS (3)
I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his house at night to warm myself in Rango's burning hands I would die at my task, arid and barren, sapless, while my father monologues about his past, and I yawn yawn yawn...
It does not take long. Soon the fine galloping language, the gutless swooning full of sapless trees and dehydrated lusts begins to swim smooth and swift and peaceful. It is better than praying without having to bother to think aloud. It is like listening in a cathedral to a eunuch chanting in a language which he does not even need to not understand.
... Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs — To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another’s mind. While the touch of Nature’s art Harmonizes heart to heart. I leave this notice on my door For each accustomed visitor: — “I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields;... Awake! arise! And come away! To the wild woods and the plains, And the pools where winter rains Image all…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1947–2020).