English edit

Etymology edit

juice +‎ -less

Adjective edit

juiceless (comparative more juiceless, superlative most juiceless)

  1. Without juice or sap.
    • 1893, George Massee, British Fungus-flora: A Classified Text-book of Mycology:
      Stem fragile, dry, juiceless, base fibrillose, scarcely rooting.
  2. Dry, dull; lacking vivacity or spirit.
    • 1898, Popular Educator:
      The three R's were abominably taught and the course of work was narrow and juiceless to the extreme.
    • 1966, Robert James McCracken, What is Sin? What is Virtue?:
      A bad-tempered person is a humorless, juiceless person. [...] What a humorless, juiceless, jaundiced pair they must have been!

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