boneless

Meanings

Adjective

being without a bone or bones
- "jellyfish are boneless"

Adj

Without bones, especially as pertaining to meat or poultry prepared for eating.
Without pizza crust; without pizza bones
Lacking strength, courage, or resolve.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English bonles, banles, from Old English bānlēas (“boneless”), from Proto-Germanic *bainalausaz, equivalent to bone + -less. Cognate with Scots baneless (“boneless”), Dutch beenloos (“boneless; legless”), German beinlos (“legless”), Swedish benlös (“boneless”), Icelandic beinlaus (“boneless”).

Synonyms

boneless, chicken, chicken-hearted, chickenshit, cowardly, craven, dastardly, fainthearted, fearful, gutless, heartless, hen-hearted, kiasi, lily-livered, milky, mousy, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, poor-spirited, pusillanimous, sissy, spineless, timid, timorous, unhearty, weak-kneed, wimpish, yellow, yellow-bellied

Antonyms

;, bone-in, bony, unboned

Scrabble Score: 10

boneless is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
boneless is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
boneless is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

boneless is a valid Words With Friends word