Usually means: Unable to fly; lacking wings.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word flightless:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. flightless: Merriam-Webster
  2. flightless: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flightless: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. flightless: Collins English Dictionary
  5. flightless: Vocabulary.com
  6. Flightless, flightless: Wordnik
  7. flightless: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. flightless: Wiktionary
  9. flightless: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. flightless: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. flightless: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. flightless: Dictionary.com
  13. Flightless (record label), Flightless: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. flightless: Rhymezone
  15. flightless: FreeDictionary.org
  16. flightless: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. flightless: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. flightless: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flightless: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flightless: Medical dictionary

(Note: See flight as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unable to fly.
adjective:  (usually) Describing kinds of birds that normally cannot fly, such as the penguin, ostrich, and emu.
adjective:  (uncommon) Describing an individual bird that normally would be able to fly but in this case cannot, such as an injured sparrow.
adjective:  (uncommon, humorous) Suddenly deprived of a scheduled (airline) flight by its cancellation.

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