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will-less

/wil-lis/US // ˈwɪl lɪs //

无意志,无意愿,不会,不愿

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having or exerting no will: a timid, will-less little man.
    • : done or occurring without the will; involuntary: a will-less compliance.
    • : leaving no will; intestate: to die will-less.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as ininvoluntary

Examples

  • Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.

  • Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.

  • For many years afterward it was a never-ending topic of conversation, and is more or less talked of even to this day.

  • No one wants to align with less freedom at a time like this.

  • The pulps brought new readers to serious fiction, making it less intimidating with alluring art and low prices.

  • In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.

  • He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

  • And with some expressions of mutual good-will and interest, master and man separated.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • He did believe you, more or less, and what you said fell in with his own impressions—strange impressions that they were, poor man!