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clueless

adj
/ˈkluː.ləs/

Etymology

From clue + -less.

  1. inherited from *glew-✻ — “to ball up, clump together; lump, swelling”
  2. inherited from *kliuwīną✻
  3. inherited from *kliuwīn✻ — “ball, clump”
  4. inherited from clēowen
  5. inherited from clew
  6. suffixed as clueless — “clue + less”

Definitions

  1. Without any clues or hints.

    • The shifting shapes mimicked the dilemma of the nearly clueless mystery of the Higgins Grove murders. As soon as the picture formed into something recognizable, it morphed into something else.

  2. Lacking knowledge or understanding

    Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.

The neighborhood

  • antonymcluefulantonym(s) of “uninformed”
  • antonyminformedantonym(s) of “uninformed”

Derived

cluelessly, cluelessness

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA