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Definitions: Dateless |
DatelessAdjective1. Having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth". 2. Of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; "dateless customs". 3. Not bearing a date; "a dateless letter". 4. Unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dateless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references) |
Synonyms: DatelessSynonyms: endless (adj), sempiternal (adj), timeless (adj), undated (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dateless |
| English words defined with "dateless": endless ♦ sempiternal ♦ timeless ♦ undated. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | So in the meantime we can just stick together since we are both dateless. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dateless (1965) | |
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William Shakespeare | For precious friends hid in death's dateless night. |
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| "Dateless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dateless" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dateless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i pakufizuar (absolute, autocratic, autocratical, termless, unbounded, unconditioned, unlimited, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted), i pafund (abysmal, bottomless, boundless, endless, immeasurable, immense, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, lengthy, limitless, never ending, numberless, spaceless, unending, unlimited, vast, vasty), i paftuar (self-invited, unasked, uninvited, unsought, unwelcome), i padatuar (undated), i njëkohe. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безкраен (endless, eternal, everlasting, incessant, infinite, measureless, never ending, perpetual, spaceless, termless, timeless, unbounded, unending, unmeasured), без дата. (various references) | |
Chinese | 日期. (various references) | |
Finnish | ajaton (inopportune, timeless). (various references) | |
German | zeitlos (ageless, agelessly, classic, eternal, timeless), undatiert (undated), ohne jahreszahl. (various references) | |
Greek | αχρονολόγητοσ (undated). (various references) | |
Hungarian | keltezés nélküli. (various references) | |
Manx | gyn date. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atelessday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem fim (borderless, measureless, never ending, perpetual, spaceless, termless, timeless, unending), sem data (no date, undated), imemorial (immemorial). (various references) | |
Romanian | strãvechi (ancient, antique, hoary, immemorial, primitive, time worn), nici o invitaţie, nedatat (undated), imemorial (immemorial), fãrã sfârşit (bottomless, endless, never ending, unceasing, without end), fãrã datã, care n-are nici o întâlnire. (various references) | |
Russian | недатированный (undated), бесконечный (borderless, endless, everlasting, fineless, infinite, interminable, spaceless, unending). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | bez datuma (undated). (various references) | |
Spanish | sin fecha (n.d., no date, undated). (various references) | |
Swedish | odaterad (undated). (various references) | |
Turkish | tarihsiz (undated), sonsuz (abiding, abysmal, boundless, endless, eternal, illimitable, immeasurable, immortal, indefinite, infinite, interminable, limitless, never ending, no end, no end of, sempiternal, timeless, undying, unending, without end), çok eski (age-old, ancient, antediluvian, old world, remote). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вічний (ageless, eternal, everlasting, perdurable, perpetual, sempiternal, timeless, unending), одвічний (age long, age-old, archetypal, primordial, secular, unbegun, uncaused), нескінченний (endless, eternal, everlasting, infinite, interminable, never ending, never-ceasing, undying, unending), незайнятий (free, idle, not occupied, odd, off, otiose, unemployed, unoccupied, vacant), недатований (undated), без дати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Dateless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: datles, duteplase, mateless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "dateless" (pronounced 'Date"less'): Actless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Approachless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beamless, Beardless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Boneless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless, Boundless, Bournless, Bowless, Bractless, Bragless, Brainless, Branchless, Breadless, Breadthless, Breathless, Breezeless, Bribeless, Bridgeless, Briefless, Brimless, Browless, Bushless, Careless, Chaffless, Chainless, Changeless, Chapeless, Chapless, Chargeless, Charmless, Chartless, Checkless, Cheerless, Chiefless, Christless, Churchless, Claimless, Clankless, Clawless, Clerkless, Cloudless, Cloyless, Coatless, Combless, Conceitless, Contentless, Corruptless, Costless, Couchless, Countless, Craftless, Creedless, Crestless, Crimeless, Crownless, Cubless, Curbless, Curdless, Cureless, Dauntless, Deathless, Debtless, Deceitless, Decreaseless, Deedless, Defenseless, Delightless, Denseless, Depthless, Desertless, Designless, Desireless, Devoutless, Dewless, Diskless, Disputeless, Distrustless, Divorceless, Dogeless, Doorless, Dreamless, Driftless, Drinkless, Drossless, Ductless, Dureless, Dustless, Earless, Easeless, Edgeless, Effectless, Endless, Eventless, Exceptless, Excuseless, Exhaustless, Expenseless, Extremeless, Eyeless, Fadeless, Faithless, Fameless, Fangless, Faultless, Fearless, Feckless, Feetless, Fenceless, Fineless, Finless, Fireless, Firmless, Flameless, flawless, Fleckless, Fleeceless, Fleshless, Floorless, foamless, Fogless, Foldless, foodless, footless, forceless, Fordless, Forkless, formless, Fraudless, Freightless, FRIENDLESS, Frightless, Fringeless, Frockless, Frontless, Frostless, Frothless, Frounceless, fruitless, Fumeless, Funuless, Gainless, Gameless, Gateless, Gaudless, Germless, Ghostless, Glebeless, godless, Goldless, Goodless, graceless, Grapeless, Graspless, grassless, Graveless, Griefless, groundless, Guardless, Guideless, guileless, guiltless, Gustless, hairless, handless, hapless, harmless, hatless, Haveless, Hazeless, headless, Healthless, heartless, heatless, Hedgeless, heedless, Heelless, Heirless, Helmless, helpless, Herbless, Hingeless, Hireless, Hiveless, homeless, Hoodless, Hoofless, hopeless, hornless, Horseless, Hostless, HOUSELESS, hueless, Humpless, Hurtless, Importless, Irresistless, Itchless, Jointless, joyless, juiceless, Kindless, Kingless, Knightless, Knotless, Lampless, landless, lawless, leafless, Leaveless, legless, lidless, lifeless, lightless, limbless, lipless, listless, Lockless, lossless, loveless, luckless, Lungless, Lustless, Makeless, Maneless, Manless, matchless, mateless, meatless, Mightless, mindless, mirthless, Mistrustless, Moistless, moonless, Mouthless, Museless, Nailless, Nameless, Napless, Nathless, nerveless, Nightless, Noiseless, Noseless, Noteless, Oarless, Offenseless, Opposeless, Painless, Paintless, Palpless, Paneless, Pangless, Passless, Pathless, Peaceless, Peerless, Phaseless, Phraseless, Pieceless, Pithless, Placeless, Plagueless, Plaintless, Planless, Plantless, Pledgeless, Pluckless, Plumeless, Pointless, Poleless, Praiseless, Prayerless, Pretenseless, Priceless, Prideless, Priestless, Princeless, Proofless, Pulseless, Quenchless, Rainless, rayless, Reachless, Realmless, Rechless, reckless, Reclaimless, Recureless, Redeless, Redressless, Reedless, regardless, Reinless, relentless, Reliefless, remorseless, Renownless, Repentless, Reproachless, Repulseless, Reputeless, resistless, resourceless, Respectless, Responseless, restless, Resultless, Retchless, Returnless, Revengeless, Reverseless, Rewardless, rhymeless, Rhythmless, ribless, Rightless, Rindless, roadless, Rockless, roofless, Roomless, rootless, Ruleless, Rumpless, rustless, Sackless, Sailless, Saltless, sapless, Sateless, scaleless, Scapeless, Scarless, Scathless, scentless, Schismless, seamless, Searchless, Seatless, seedless, Seemless, selfless, senseless, sexless, Shadeless, shameless, shapeless, Sheathless, Shieldless, shiftless, Shipless, Shirtless, shoeless, Shoreless, Shredless, Shroudless, Shrubless, Shunless, Sickless, sightless, sinless, Skinless, Slakeless, sleepless, sleeveless, Smileless, Smockless, smokeless, Snowless, Sockless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: detassel, tasseled. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: delates, desalts, sedates, teasels. | |
-2 letters: delate, deltas, desalt, easels, elated, elates, eldest, lasted, leased, leases, leasts, salted, sealed, seated, sedate, slated, slates, sleets, stades, staled, stales, steads, steals, steeds, steels, stelae, steles, tassel, teased, teasel, teases, teslas, tsades. | |
-3 letters: aedes, assed, asset, dales, dates, deals, dealt, deets, deles, delta, delts, eased, easel, eases, easts, elate, lades, lased, lases, lasts, lated, leads, lease, least, leets, sades, sales, salts, sated, sates, seals, seats, seeds, seels, setae, setal, slate, slats, sleds, sleet, stade, stale, stead, steal, steed, steel, stela, stele, taels, tales, tasse, teals, tease, teels, telae, teles, tesla, tsade. | |
-4 letters: alee, ales, alts, ates, dale, dals, date, deal, dees, deet, dele, dels, delt, ease, east, eats, eels, elds, else, eses, etas, lade, lads, lase, lass, last, late, lats, lead, leas, lees, leet, less, lest, lets, sade, sale, sals, salt, sate, seal, seas, seat, seed, seel, sees, sels, seta, sets, slat, sled, tads, tael, tale, tass, teal, teas, teds, teed, teel, tees, tela, tele, tels. | |
-5 letters: ads, ale, als, alt, ass, ate, dal, dee, del, eat, eds, eel, eld, els, ess, eta, lad, las, lat, lea, led, lee, let, sad, sae, sal, sat, sea, see, sel, set, tad, tae, tas, tea, ted, tee, tel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: deathless, desalters, desolates, detassels, pedestals, tasselled, treadless. | |
+2 letters: adulteress, assertedly, desolaters, detasseled, elatedness, steelheads, steelyards, threadless. | |
+3 letters: adolescents, adultnesses, belatedness, deathlessly, deescalates, desalinates, detasseling, detasselled, established, federalists, relatedness, saddletrees, stepladders, tessellated. | |
+4 letters: adulteresses, aldosterones, daughterless, deerstalkers, delicatessen, desolateness, destabilizes, detailedness, detasselling, disablements, disentangles, drysalteries, elatednesses, medievalists, slipstreamed, somersaulted, stakeholders. | |
+5 letters: belatednesses, dauntlessness, deathlessness, deescalations, delicatessens, displacements, essentialized, identicalness, nucleotidases, reestablished, relatednesses, subadolescent, summersaulted, unestablished. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61 74 65 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .- - . .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a t e l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061 0074 0065 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3867867178718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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