Sleeveless

Alternative forms

Origin

sleeve + -less

Full definition of sleeveless

Adjective

1. Of a garment, having no sleeves.
2. (obsolete) Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
• 1602, William Shakespeare, , V. iv. 8:might send that Greekish
  whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the
  dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.
3. The vexation of a sleeveless errand. — Bishop Warburton.