English
Etymology
From clue + -less.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkluː.ləs/
- Homophone: clewless
- Rhymes: -uːləs
Adjective
clueless (comparative more clueless, superlative most clueless)
- (literally) 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.
- (figuratively) Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.
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lacking knowledge or understanding
- Catalan: sense (ca) pista (ca)
- 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)
- Hindi: अनजान (hi) (anjān), अनभिज्ञ (hi) (anbhijña)
- Hungarian: tudatlan (hu)
- Irish: aineolach
- Italian: senza (it) idea (it)
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: zielony (pl) m
- Portuguese: sem (pt) ideia (pt)
- Russian: неве́жественный (ru) (nevéžestvennyj)
- Spanish: en la inopia, pez (es), despistado (es), negado (es), no tener ni idea (verb), despalomado (Andes), en Babia, en nada, estar en las nubes (verb), vivir en las nubes (verb), andar por las nubes (verb)
- 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
- Welsh: di-glem (cy)
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