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{
"antonyms": [
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of \"uninformed\"",
"word": "clueful"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of \"uninformed\"",
"word": "informed"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "cluelessly"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "cluelessness"
}
],
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{
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"1": "en",
"2": "clue",
"3": "less"
},
"expansion": "clue + -less",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "clue + -less",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more clueless",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most clueless",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "clueless (comparative more clueless, superlative most clueless)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious."
],
"id": "en-clueless-en-adj-5dP~rX8G",
"links": [
[
"knowledge",
"knowledge"
],
[
"understanding",
"understanding"
],
[
"uninformed",
"uninformed"
],
[
"oblivious",
"oblivious"
]
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "無知"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mou⁴ zi¹",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "无知"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "bû-ti",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "无知"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wúzhī",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "无知"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bezradný"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "onnozel"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "tietämätön"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "ignorant"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "ahnungslos"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "planlos"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "unbedarft"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ovéd 'etzót",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אוֹבֵד עֵצוֹת"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "tudatlan"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "aineolach"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zielony"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevéžestvennyj",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "неве́жественный"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "en la inopia"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"note": "preceded by the verb estar",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "pez"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "aningslös"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "cahil"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "bilgisiz"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "không đầu mối"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "không hiểu đời"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 5",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "không manh mối"
}
]
},
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "22 78",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -less",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Kathleen Newberg, Faux Finish, page 97",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Without any clues or hints."
],
"id": "en-clueless-en-adj-1~zPGnLN"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkluː.ləs/"
},
{
"homophone": "clewless"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːləs"
}
],
"word": "clueless"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of \"uninformed\"",
"word": "clueful"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of \"uninformed\"",
"word": "informed"
}
],
"categories": [
"English 2-syllable words",
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -less",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with homophones",
"Rhymes:English/uːləs"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cluelessly"
},
{
"word": "cluelessness"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
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"2": "clue",
"3": "less"
},
"expansion": "clue + -less",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "clue + -less",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more clueless",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most clueless",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "clueless (comparative more clueless, superlative most clueless)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious."
],
"links": [
[
"knowledge",
"knowledge"
],
[
"understanding",
"understanding"
],
[
"uninformed",
"uninformed"
],
[
"oblivious",
"oblivious"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2010, Kathleen Newberg, Faux Finish, page 97",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Without any clues or hints."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkluː.ləs/"
},
{
"homophone": "clewless"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːləs"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "無知"
},
{
"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "mou⁴ zi¹",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "无知"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"roman": "bû-ti",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "无知"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wúzhī",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "无知"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "bezradný"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "onnozel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "tietämätön"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "ignorant"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "ahnungslos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "planlos"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "unbedarft"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ovéd 'etzót",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "אוֹבֵד עֵצוֹת"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "tudatlan"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "aineolach"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zielony"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nevéžestvennyj",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "неве́жественный"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "en la inopia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"note": "preceded by the verb estar",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "pez"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "aningslös"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "lacking knowledge or understanding",
"word": "cahil"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"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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