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Definition of headless:

Destitute of a chief or leader.
Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.
Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.

Synonyms:

decapitated, beheaded, fatuous, unintelligent, dull, dead, brainless, lifeless, stupid, acephalous, witless.

Usage examples:

Stephen looked down on a wide headless caubeen, hung on his ashplanthandle over his knee.

- "Ulysses", James Joyce.
The grave was then filled up, covering the headless body; then a bundle of fagots was brought and placed on the grave by the different members of the tribe, and on these fagots the head was placed, the pile fired, and the head consumed to ashes; after this was done the female relatives of the deceased, who had appeared as mourners with their faces blackened with a preparation resembling tar or paint, dipped their fingers in the ashes of the cremated head and made three marks on their right cheek.

- "A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 87-204", H. C. Yarrow.
The two figures thus confronted each other for about the space of a second, the headless apparition rising and rising till it seemed to touch the roof of the cave, when it extended its wide arms and made a clutch at the other, and now trembling, figure in front.

- "The Island Treasure", John Conroy Hutcheson.