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blame·less
 blameless
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- pronunciation:
- bleIm
lihs
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
free from guilt or blame.
- synonyms:
- guiltless, inculpable, innocent, irreproachable
- antonyms:
- blameworthy
- similar words:
- clear, faultless, lily-white, moral, spotless, stainless, sterling, unimpeachable, upright, upstanding, virtuous
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| related words: |
clean, harmless, innocent |
adverb + (adj.)blameless
completely, either, entirely, from, hardly, morally, perfectly, relatively, somehow, therefore
(adj.)blameless
+ noun
action, behavior, brother, condition, conduct, creature, death, defense, fate, flower, insurance, killing, liberty, life, love, matter, situation, victim
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| derivations: |
blamelessly (adv.), blamelessness (n.) |
The word blameless
contains the following part:
-less
Middle English
adjective-forming suffix
that means without
  More about this word part:
The suffix -less
attaches primarily to monosyllabic English nouns. However, -less
is a fully productive suffix, meaning it can be added to any noun to form legitimate new words.
Example words:
aimless, airless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, boneless, bodiless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, careless, cheerless, colorless, cordless, countless, dauntless, doubtless, endless, fatherless, fearless, feckless, flawless, formless, graceless, groundless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, jobless, joyless, listless, matchless, merciless, mindless, motionless, nameless, painless, peerless, penniless, pitiless, pointless, powerless, priceless, regardless, relentless, restless, selfless, sightless, soundless1, spotless, stainless, strapless, sunless, tasteless, thoughtless, tireless, useless, wireless, weightless, worthless
- synonyms:
- a-1, an-1
- antonyms:
- -ful1
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