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Definition: OBJECTLESS |
OBJECTLESSAdjective1. Having no object; purposeless. |
Date "OBJECTLESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| "OBJECTLESS" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OBJECTLESS" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "OBJECTLESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pa objekt, i paqëllueshëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | безцелен (aimless, desultory, meaningless, pointless, purposeless), безпредметен (nugatory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | άσκοποσ (aimless, feckless, goalless, impractical, inane, needless, pointless, purportless, purposeless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | céltalan (aimless, meaningless, misguided, otiose, pointless, purposeless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza scopo (aimless, purposeless), inutile (bootless, good for nothing, idle, in vain, needless, pointless, unavailing, unfit, unnecessary, unsuitable, unusable, useless, vain). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | objectlessay objetividade (outwards, reality), sem objetivo (aimless, purposeless). (various references) бесцельный (aimless, directionless, purposeless, unaimed), беспредметный. (various references) bespredmetan, besciljan (aimless, purposeless). (various references) sin objetivo (aimless, purposeless, unfocused). (various references) objektivlöss. (various references) hedefsiz (aimless), amaçsız (aimless, at an end, pointless, purposeless, vacuous, vagabond, wanton, without cause). (various references) безцільний (aimless, meaningless, purposeless), безпредметний (non-figurative). (various references) không có mục đích (purposeless), không có đối tượng không có mục tiêu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "OBJECTLESS": objectlessness, objectlessnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "OBJECTLESS" (pronounced 'Ob"ject*less'): Accentless, Actionless, Actless, Afflictionless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Ambitionless, Anchorless, Answerless, Approachless, Apronless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Authorless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beaconless, Beamless, Beardless, Beautiless, Beneficeless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blemishless, Bless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blossomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Bodiless, Boneless, Bonnetless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-j-l-o-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: boletes, closest, closets, jobless, jostles, objects, selects, teloses, toeless. | |
-4 letters: besets, besots, betels, bolete, botels, celebs, cestos, closes, closet, cobles, cosets, cosset, ejects, elects, escots, jebels, jostle, object, objets, select, setose, sleets, socles, steels, steles, stoles. | |
-5 letters: beets, belts, beset, besot, bests, betel, bless, blest, blets, blocs, blots, boles, bolts, botel, celeb, celts. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-e-e-j-l-o-s-s-t" | |
+4 letters: objectlessness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 42 4A 45 43 54 4C 45 53 53 |
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