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Webster 1913 Edition


Weetless

Weet′less

,
Adj.
Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Weetless

WEETLESS

,
Adj.
Unknowing.

Definition 2024


weetless

weetless

English

Adjective

weetless (comparative more weetless, superlative most weetless)

  1. (archaic) Unknowing, unconscious.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
      But the false Archer, which that arrow shot / So slyly that she did not feele the wound, / Did smyle full smoothly at her weetlesse wofull stound.
  2. (obsolete) Meaningless.
    • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, July:
      Syker, thous but a laesie loord, and rekes much of thy swinck, / That with fond termes, and weetlesse words to blere myne eyes doest thinke.