[
UK
/nˈɜːvləs/
]
ADJECTIVE
-
marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional
keep cool
stayed coolheaded in the crisis
the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament
play it cool -
lacking strength
a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude
How To Use nerveless In A Sentence
- We see these victims everywhere shorn of power -- weak, nerveless, backboneless, staminaless, gritless people, without forcefulness, mere nonentities because they have ceased working. Pushing to the Front
- She was halted with a sensation somewhat akin to being slammed into a brick wall, her sword dropping from her nerveless fingers as the impact struck her.
- The glass she had been holding shattered on the ground, falling from her nerveless fingers.
- Still only 21, he is a nerveless and deadly finisher regardless of the magnitude of the occasion.
- But then she saw he had dropped the gun from nerveless hands and she could not fault him at all.
- The first glume is very small, hyaline, suborbicular, nerveless and truncate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- That this has so widely happened in our day is at least part of the reason for current cynicism and nervelessness in the effort to secure peace and justice in human relations.
- The sound is less spectacular: a nerveless mono mix.
- I even saw myself, detachedly, falling down unconscious, nerveless. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
- The hottest Thai export since their famed curries, he will be insistent on proving that he is no one-year fluke, that he is as nerveless as he is graceful.
