Leafless (Adjective)
Meaning
Having no leaves.
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The tree stood tall in the winter landscape, its branchlets exposed and leafless against the grey sky.
- In autumn, the trees gradually shed their leaves until they stood bare and leafless by the roadside.
- A year of drought had left the once lush garden now leafless and barren, its trees struggling to survive.
- The woodland creatures adapted to life in a forest filled with leafless trees that seemed to stretch up to the sky like skeletal fingers.
- When winter struck the leafless trees seemed particularly exposed as snow built up in their branches.