"clueless" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈkluː.ləs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-clueless.wav Forms: more clueless [comparative], most clueless [superlative]
Rhymes: -uːləs Etymology: From clue + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|clue|less}} clue + -less Head templates: {{en-adj}} clueless (comparative more clueless, superlative most clueless)
  1. Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious. Translations (lacking knowledge or understanding): 无知 (bû-ti) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 無知 (Chinese Cantonese), 无知 (mou⁴ zi¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 无知 (wúzhī) (Chinese Mandarin), bezradný [masculine] (Czech), onnozel (Dutch), tietämätön (Finnish), ignorant (French), ahnungslos (German), planlos (German), unbedarft (German), אוֹבֵד עֵצוֹת (ovéd 'etzót) [masculine] (Hebrew), tudatlan (Hungarian), aineolach (Irish), zielony [masculine] (Polish), неве́жественный (nevéžestvennyj) (Russian), en la inopia (Spanish), pez (note: preceded by the verb estar) [colloquial] (Spanish), despistado (Spanish), negado (Spanish), que no tiene ni idea (Spanish), despalomado (english: Andes) (Spanish), aningslös (Swedish), cahil (Turkish), bilgisiz (Turkish), không đầu mối (Vietnamese), không hiểu đời (Vietnamese), không manh mối (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-clueless-en-adj-5dP~rX8G Disambiguation of 'lacking knowledge or understanding': 95 5
  2. Without any clues or hints.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: cluelessly, cluelessness
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
      "word": "bilgisiz"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
      "word": "không đầu mối"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
      "word": "không hiểu đời"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
      "word": "không manh mối"
    }
  ],
  "word": "clueless"
}

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