kneeless

Lacking leg hinges

Kneeless describes something or someone lacking knees.

The word appears most often describing pants or trousers worn through at the knees: kneeless jeans.

It can also describe creatures or designs without knee joints, or figuratively suggest an inability to kneel or genuflect.

anatomical

legless

Having no limbs

cartilaginous · flexible · serpentine · undulating · slithering · crawling · wriggling · appendage · segmented

amputee

prosthesis

Manufactured replacement body part

disability · stumps · crutches · adaptation · rehabilitation · assistive · accessibility · prosthetic · limbless · residual limb

robotic

android

Machine resembling a person

  • cyborgOrganic-mechanical hybrid entity
  • bionicMechanically augmented human
  • prostheticManufactured body substitute

mechanical · robotic · articulation · joint · exoskeleton · cybernetic · humanoid · animatronic · biomechanics · locomotion

mythical

mermaid

Fish-tailed ocean woman

  • serpentCunning, limbless reptile
  • nagaDivine snake being
  • lamiaChild-devouring demoness of antiquity

leviathan · kraken · wyrm · sea serpent · basilisk · ouroboros

invertebrate

jellyfish

Drifting marine stinger

  • octopusEight-limbed sea mollusk
  • wormLimbless soil invertebrate
  • slugNaked terrestrial mollusk

snail · squid · starfish · sea cucumber · mollusk · arthropod · insect · spider · crustacean · coral

Opposites
presence of knee joints

kneelesskneed

Struck with leg joint

jointed · articulated · knees · hinged · knee-length

joint articulation

kneelessarticulated

Having segments that bend

jointed · hinged · bendable · flexible · segmented

Family

kneeled

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G