maidenless
/ˈmeɪdənləs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Uncharacteristic of a maiden; (by extension) vulgar, uncouth, unladylike.
adj
Single; lacking a girlfriend.
Example Sentences
- "Philip had sulkily allowed himself to be dragged into it, and had perched disconsolately in one corner of the group among other maidenless youths."
- "What I sing in the maidenless tower, no stone-eyed king Could grant, nor limping beggar tell."
- "By Romulus, founder of Rome, were shows of this nature established, When the Sabine women were raped, to pleasure his maidenless men."
- "Seen between two of the sententiously parted shoulders is Willie's Lola, an ambiguous solitary gardenia in an otherwise maidenless tribe."
- "Perhaps he had brought the seventy-seven beautiful maidens? No. He heaved a few more earls aside and appeared, flushed in the flickering light of the torches, panting but maidenless."
- "Lightfoot noted that there were not enough maidens to go around, so that most groups were maidenless. "Go!" cried Beloved again."
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Inflected Forms
more maidenless (comparative)
most maidenless (superlative)