dateless
/ˈdeɪtlɪs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.80 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
adj
Without a start; immemorial.
Example Sentences
- "Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?"
- "and he were put in York prison and tried and hung – hung! Charley! – kind father was hung on a gallows and mother lost sense and grew silly in grief and we were like to be turned on t' wide world and poor mother dateless"
- "An' they geet howd on her, and carried her into Sally Grimshaw's, an' laid her upo' th' couch cheer, as dateless as a stone !"
- "Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing."
- "You dateless fool, you stupid ass, clamped to / This crag for all eternity"
- ""You dateless article," stormed his father, leaving Bennett to realise in his laconic way that he was, and probably always would be, a disappointment to Dad."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more dateless (comparative)
most dateless (superlative)