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Chiefless vs Chiefess - What's the difference?

chiefless | chiefess |

As an adjective chiefless

is without a chief; leaderless.

As a noun chiefess is

(hawaii) a female chief or the wife of a chief.

chiefless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without a chief; leaderless.
  • * 1886 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
    • No great clan held rule there; it was filled and disputed by small septs, and broken remnants, and what they call 'chiefless folks', driven into the wild country about the springs of Forth and Teith by the advance of the Campbells.

    Derived terms

    * chieflessness

    chiefess

    English

    Noun

    (chiefesses)
  • (Hawaii) A female chief or the wife of a chief.

    • Synonyms

    * chieftainess