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bodiless

[ bod-ee-lis, -i-lis ]

adjective

  1. having no body or material form; incorporeal; disembodied.


bodiless

/ ˈbɒdɪlɪs /

adjective

  1. having no body or substance; incorporeal or insubstantial
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • bodi·less·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bodiless1

First recorded in 1350–1400, bodiless is from the Middle English word bodiles. See body, -less
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Example Sentences

Elena comments, “All I have are her words, their rhythms — bodiless and abandoned.”

The Twins are mere bodiless names that might have been eliminated altogether.

And having got at him she held him, a bloodless spirit, a bodiless essence, in the fount of healing.

There they are shadowed by the ghostly forms of menacing, bodiless shapes!

It sounded bodiless and unearthly in the thin air of that high altitude.

Such signs are material symbols of their bodiless existence.

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