sapless

• HYPHEN: sap=less

CIDE DICTIONARY

sapless, a. 

•  Destitute of sap; not juicy.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless.  Lowell.  [1913 Webster]

  "Now sapless on the verge of death he stands."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

sapless

Saharan, anemic, anhydrous, arid, asthenic, athirst, bland, bloodless, bone-dry, chicken, cowardly, dead, debilitated, desert, dilute, diluted, driveling, drooping, droopy, droughty, dry, dry as dust, dull, dusty, effete, etiolated, fade, faint, faintish, feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flavorless, floppy, gone, gruelly, gutless, high and dry, imbecile, impotent, inane, indifferent, innocuous, insipid, jejune, juiceless, languid, languorous, like parchment, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, mild, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, nerveless, pappy, pithless, pooped, powerless, pulpy, rubbery, sandy, savorless, sinewless, slack, soft, spiceless, spineless, stale, strengthless, tasteless, thin, thirsting, thirsty, undamped, unflavored, unhardened, unnerved, unsavory, unstrung, unwatered, vapid, washy, watered, watered-down, waterless, watery, weak, weakly, wishy-washy

ROGET THESAURUS

sapless

Dryness

N dryness, siccity, aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water, exsiccation, desiccation, arefaction, dephlegmation, drainage, drier, desiccative, dessicator, dessicator, hair drier, clothes drier, gas drier, electric drier, vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln, lyophilizer, clothesline, dry, anhydrous, arid, adust, arescent, dried, undamped, juiceless, sapless, sear, husky, rainless, without rain, fine, dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit, water proof, water tight, dehydrated, dessicated.