"charmless" meaning in All languages combined

See charmless on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more charmless [comparative], most charmless [superlative]
Etymology: From charm + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|charm|less}} charm + -less Head templates: {{en-adj}} charmless (comparative more charmless, superlative most charmless)
  1. (of character) unpleasant, unappealing, lacking charm Derived forms: charmlessly, charmlessness
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "charming"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "charm",
        "3": "less"
      },
      "expansion": "charm + -less",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From charm + -less.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more charmless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most charmless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "charmless (comparative more charmless, superlative most charmless)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -less",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "charmlessly"
        },
        {
          "word": "charmlessness"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, “Charmless Man”, performed by Blur:",
          "text": "I met him in a crowded room / Where people go to drink away their gloom / He sat me down and so began / The story of a charmless man.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unpleasant, unappealing, lacking charm"
      ],
      "id": "en-charmless-en-adj-ZOtlAnFH",
      "links": [
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "unappealing",
          "unappealing"
        ],
        [
          "charm",
          "charm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of character) unpleasant, unappealing, lacking charm"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of character"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "charmless"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "charming"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "charmlessly"
    },
    {
      "word": "charmlessness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "charm",
        "3": "less"
      },
      "expansion": "charm + -less",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From charm + -less.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more charmless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most charmless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "charmless (comparative more charmless, superlative most charmless)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -less",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, “Charmless Man”, performed by Blur:",
          "text": "I met him in a crowded room / Where people go to drink away their gloom / He sat me down and so began / The story of a charmless man.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "unpleasant, unappealing, lacking charm"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unpleasant",
          "unpleasant"
        ],
        [
          "unappealing",
          "unappealing"
        ],
        [
          "charm",
          "charm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of character) unpleasant, unappealing, lacking charm"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of character"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "charmless"
}

Download raw JSONL data for charmless meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (af5c55c and 66545a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.