headless

adjective

head·​less ˈhed-ləs 

1

a

: having no head

b

: having the head cut off : beheaded

2

: having no chief

3

: lacking good sense or prudence : foolish

headlessness noun

Examples of headless in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The object of the game is to pick up a headless goat—or, in the case of these Games, a seventy-pound chunk of rubber shaped like a goat—and throw it into the other team’s goal, a plastic basin about the size of a hot tub. —Will Grant, Outside Online, 11 June 2025

The best platforms have integrated AI features, headless browsers and similar cutting-edge scraping, parsing and web-unblocking capabilities. —Julius Černiauskas, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025

For example, the MACH architecture (microservices, APIs, cloud-native SaaS and headless) is gaining traction, enabling flexibility and scalability by allowing individual components to be developed, deployed and managed independently. —Darko Pavic, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025

It was later determined to be the corpse of Edwin Echevarria, 65, whose body was headless and dismembered torso. —Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Kids Definition

headless

adjective

head·​less ˈhed-ləs 

1

: having no head

2

: having no chief

3

: lacking good sense or prudence : foolish

headlessness noun