sackless

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈsækləs/ UK /ˈsækləs/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
innocent or guiltless; also dialectally feeble or simple-minded

In the old ballad the sackless maiden was wrongly accused.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · innocent or guiltless; also... innocent guiltless blameless feeble simple witless

Opposites

guilty culpable

Word family

Related forms sake

Etymology

From Old English sacleas ('free from guilt or dispute'), from sacu ('strife, lawsuit, guilt') + -leas ('-less'); related to the word sake.

sacleas Old English sacu Old English

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Topics

Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# sackless

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈsækləs/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈsækləs/

## Meanings
1. innocent or guiltless; also dialectally feeble or simple-minded

## Examples
- In the old ballad the sackless maiden was wrongly accused.

## Synonyms
- innocent
- guiltless
- blameless
- feeble
- simple
- witless

## Antonyms
- guilty
- culpable

## Related Forms
- sake

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: sacleas
- Root: sacu

## Etymology
From Old English sacleas ('free from guilt or dispute'), from sacu ('strife, lawsuit, guilt') + -leas ('-less'); related to the word sake.

## AI Etymology
Sackless comes from Old English sacleas ('free from guilt or dispute'), from sacu ('strife, lawsuit, guilt') + -leas ('-less'); related to the word sake. The historical chain includes Old English sacleas and Old English sacu. The quoted older senses, "free from guilt or dispute", "strife, lawsuit, guilt", and "-less", supply the semantic anchors for sackless. The formation is best read as suffixal and borrowed: the word sackless carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "innocent or guiltless; also dialectally feeble or simple-minded". Related English forms include sake. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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