fretless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.98 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a stringed instrument, not having frets on the fingerboard.
adj
Without worries.
noun
A stringed instrument without frets on the fingerboard.
Example Sentences
- "You would live longer and happier if you would only be quiet and fretless."
- "Will the fretless world be happy or will restless nature shout / For some old-time fret or worry just to rave and kick about?"
- "Is it not worth while to try and approximate, if we cannot hope to attain, the ideal of fretless, fussless, and unworrying poise?"
- "Read's creations have covered just about all of bass-dom, from vintage-style 4-strings to 32-position fretlesses to 25-fret 8-strings tuned F♯BEADGCF."
- "No other machine can produce sounds which are so often described as 'singing', 'purring', 'humming', and 'ringing'. But this array of mellifluous notes doesn't come cheaply: even those who have mastered the fretless to moderate levels of proficiency have been obliged to spend many hundreds of hours on techniques which fretted-bass players either take for granted or simply do not require."
- "Many fretlesses, especially less expensive models that mimic a fretted counterpart, have fretted-bass nut slots."
Etymology
Etymology tree English fret Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English fretless From fret + -less.