"flightless" meaning in English

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Adjective

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enPR: flīt'lĭs Etymology: From flight + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|flight|less}} flight + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} flightless (not comparable)
  1. Unable to fly.
    (usually) Describing kinds of birds that normally cannot fly, such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu.
    Tags: not-comparable, usually Synonyms: nonflying, nonvolant
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  2. Unable to fly.
    (uncommon) Describing an individual bird that normally would be able to fly but in this case cannot, such as an injured sparrow.
    Tags: not-comparable, uncommon
    Sense id: en-flightless-en-adj-PCEfSf68
  3. Unable to fly.
    (uncommon, humorous) Suddenly deprived of a scheduled (airline) flight by its cancellation.
    Tags: humorous, not-comparable, uncommon
    Sense id: en-flightless-en-adj-m23hbtI-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: flightless cormorant, flightlessness, New Guinea flightless rail Related terms: unflightworthy, unflyable, unflying, featherless Translations (unable to fly): nelétavý (Czech), ikke flyvedygtig (Danish), niet-vliegend (Dutch), lentokyvytön (Finnish), flugunfähig (German), άπτερος (ápteros) (Greek), röpképtelen (Hungarian), ófleygur (Icelandic), incapace di volare (Italian), neskraidantis (Lithuanian), flygeudyktig (Norwegian Bokmål), flygeudyktig (Norwegian Nynorsk), بیپرواز (bi-parvâz) (Persian), nielotny (Polish), нелета́ющий (neletájuščij) (Russian), flygoförmögen (Swedish), ఎగురలేని (eguralēni) (Telugu)
Disambiguation of 'unable to fly': 33 33 33
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    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "unable to fly",
      "word": "flygoförmögen"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "eguralēni",
      "sense": "unable to fly",
      "word": "ఎగురలేని"
    }
  ],
  "word": "flightless"
}

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