pithless Smith-Hall pithless: i. e. wanting force and life: perh. ārĭdus, jējūnus: v. DRY, JEJUNE. An arid, p. style, aridum et exsangue orationis genus, Auct. Her. 4, 11, 16 cf. Tac. Or. 18 (orator exsanguis et attritus, pithless and bare).