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English
Etymology
From clue + -less.
Pronunciation
Adjective
clueless (comparative more clueless, superlative most clueless)
- Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.
- Without any clues or hints.
2010, Kathleen Newberg, Faux Finish, page 97: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.
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Translations
lacking knowledge or understanding
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 無知 / 无知 (mou4 zi1)
- Hokkien: 无知 (bû-ti)
- Mandarin: 无知 (zh) (wúzhī)
- Czech: bezradný m
- Dutch: onnozel (nl)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: tietämätön (fi)
- French: ignorant (fr)
- German: ahnungslos (de), planlos (de), unbedarft (de)
- Hebrew: אוֹבֵד עֵצוֹת (he) m (ovéd 'etzót)
- Hungarian: tudatlan (hu)
- Irish: aineolach
- Italian: please add this translation if you can
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: zielony (pl) m
- Russian: неве́жественный (ru) (nevéžestvennyj)
- Spanish: en la inopia, pez (es), despistado (es), negado (es), que no tiene ni idea, despalomado (Andes), en Babia
- Swedish: aningslös (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: cahil (tr), bilgisiz (tr)
- Vietnamese: không đầu mối, không hiểu đời, không manh mối
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