weetless

English

Etymology

From weet +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwiːtləs/

Adjective

weetless (comparative more weetless, superlative most weetless)

1. (archaic) Unknowing, unconscious.
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     1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     But the false Archer, which that arrow shot / So slyly that she did not feele the wound, / Did smyle full smoothly at her weetlesse wofull stound.

2. (obsolete) Meaningless.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iulye. Ægloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:

     Syker, thous but a laesie loord, and rekes much of thy swinck, / That with fond termes, and weetlesse words to blere myne eyes doest thinke.