'Sleeveless' definitions:

Definition of 'sleeveless'

From: WordNet
adjective
Having no sleeves; "sleeveless summer dresses" [ant: sleeved]
adjective
Unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]

Definition of 'Sleeveless'

From: GCIDE
  • Sleeveless \Sleeve"less\, a. [AS. sl[=e]fle['a]s.]
  • 1. Having no sleeves. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Lacking a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; bootless; useless. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • The vexation of a sleeveless errand. --Bp. Warburton. [1913 Webster]