a. [f. as prec. + -LESS.] Devoid of knowledge, ignorant.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. VI. v. 196. He will bid you be knowledgeless, desireless, motionless.
1900. F. W. Bullen, With Christ at Sea, iv. 101. So helpless, so utterly knowledgeless, possessing nothing but the consciousness of Life just begun is the new-born Christian.