lipless

Lacking a mouth

Lipless describes something without lips or appearing to lack them.

A lipless mouth is thin, tight, or barely visible.

The word often carries connotations of coldness or severity: His lipless smile offered no warmth.

In fishing, a lipless crankbait is a lure without the protruding bill that typically controls diving depth.

anatomy

mouthpart

Feeding structure on arthropods

  • beakHorny avian mouthpart
  • billAmount owed, written
  • snoutBeast's protruding face

muzzle · mandible · jaw · gape · oral · proboscis · rostrum · fish · lamprey · hagfish

expressionless

blank

Without marks or content

unemotional · deadpan · poker-faced · inscrutable · unreadable · masklike · stony · wooden · flat · affectless

Opposites
presence of lips

liplesslipped

Having a raised edge

labiate · lips · liplike · labial

lip prominence/fullness

liplessfull-mouthed

Loud and resonant

bee-stung · pouty

Family

lip, lips, lippy, lipped, liplike, lippiness, lip-sync, lipliner, lip-reading

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G