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Definition: Tearless |
TearlessAdjective1. Free from tears. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tearless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
Synonym: TearlessSynonym: dry-eyed (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: tearful (adj). (additional references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Christian Nevell Bovee | Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Her eyes seemed not to have been tearless for a long time. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Tearless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tearless" is used about 3 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% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
forever tearless | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tearless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që nuk qan, pa lot (dry). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сух (academic, academical, anhydrous, arid, aseptic, bald, brut, chaffy, chippy, dried, droughty, dry, fleshless, gaunt, hacking, lean, liny, matter of fact, pedestrian, prosy, rainless, sapless, sec, spare, undamped, uninspired), тих (airless, breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, sleepy, slow, small, soft, stealthy, still, stilly, tranquil, under, uneventful), неспособен да плаче, неизвикващ сълзи. (various references) | |
Czech | beze slz. (various references) | |
German | ohne zu weinen. (various references) | |
Greek | στεγνόσ (dry, sapless), άδακρυσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | könnytelen. (various references) | |
Italian | senza lacrime. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earlesstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sem lágrimas. (various references) | |
Russian | бесчувственный (callous, cold blooded, hardhearted, impassive, insensate, insentient, torpid, unfeeling), без слез. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neosetljiv (cold-livered, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insusceptible, senseless, steel, stolid, stony, unfeeling, unsusceptible), bez suza, besuzan. (various references) | |
Spanish | sin lágrimas (dry eyed). (various references) | |
Ukranian | нездатний плакати, без сліз (dry eyed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không khóc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | siccus, sine lacrimis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "tearless" (pronounced 'Tear"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, Dateless, 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. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reslates, stealers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-r-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: artless, earless, easters, elaters, lasters, leasers, realest, relates, resales, reseals, reseats, reslate, salters, sealers, searest, seaters, slaters, stealer, streels, teasels, teasers, tessera, tressel. | |
-2 letters: alerts, alters, aretes, artels, assert, asters, easels, easter, eaters, elater, elates, erases, esters, estral, larees, lasers, laster, leaser, leases, leasts, lesser, rassle, ratels, reales, reests, relate, relets, resale, reseal, reseat, resets, salter, sarees, sealer, seater, serest, slater, slates, sleets, staler, stales, stares, steals, steels, steers, stelae, stelar, steles, steres, streel, talers, tassel, teasel, teaser, teases, teslas. | |
-3 letters: alert, alter, arete, arles, arses, artel, asset, aster, earls, easel, eases, easts, eater, elate, erase, erses, ester, laree, lares, laser, lases, lasts, later, lears, lease, least, leers, leets, rales, rases, ratel, rates, reals, reels, reest, relet, reset, rests, sales, salts, saree, sates, seals, sears, seats, seels, seers, seral, seres, setae, setal, slate, slats, sleet, stale, stare, stars, steal, steel, steer, stela, stele, stere, taels, taler, tales, tares, tasse, teals, tears, tease, teels, telae, teles, terse, tesla, trass, trees, tress, tsars. | |
-4 letters: alee, ales, alts, ares, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, ease, east, eats, eels, else, eras, erst, eses, etas, lars, lase, lass, last, late, lats, lear, leas, leer, lees, leet, less, lest, lets, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, reel, rees, rest, rete, rets, sale, sals, salt, sate, seal, sear, seas, seat, seel, seer, sees, sels, sera, sere, sers, seta, sets, slat, star, tael, tale, tare, tars, tass, teal, tear, teas, teel, tees, tela, tele, tels, tree, tsar. | |
-5 letters: ale, als, alt, are, ars, art, ass, ate, ear, eat, eel, els, era, ere, ers, ess, eta, lar, las, lat, lea, lee, let, ras, rat, ree, res, ret, sae, sal, sat, sea, see, sel, ser, set, tae, tar, tas, tea, tee, tel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-r-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: alertness, arbelests, desalters, heartless, oleasters, resalutes, semestral, teaselers, traceless, treadless, waterless. | |
+2 letters: adulteress, assertedly, breathless, cartelises, desolaters, easterlies, elastomers, fatherless, misrelates, parentless, plasterers, psalteries, replasters, salometers, saltpeters, semestrial, steelyards, streamlets, threadless, trehaloses. | |
+3 letters: alertnesses, allosteries, artlessness, assertively, blastomeres, centralises, earthliness, establisher, eternalness, featherless, featureless, federalists, forecastles, generalists, heartlessly, linecasters, literalness, lusterwares, neorealists, neutralises, neutralness, partnerless, patternless, peristalses, reescalates, reestablish, relatedness, revitalises, saddletrees, saleratuses, servantless, severalties, sphalerites, steelmakers, stepladders, straplesses, streamlines, streetlamps, tearfulness, telecasters. | |
+4 letters: adulteresses, aldosterones, artfulnesses, asteriskless, breastplates, breathlessly, clearstories, daughterless, deerstalkers, drysalteries, epistolaries, establishers, etherealness, everlastings, externalises, externalisms, extrasystole, fatherliness, forestallers, gratefulness, internalises, legislatures, letterspaces, literariness, literateness, malapertness, masterliness, materialises, materialness, operatorless, paltrinesses, personalties, pleasantries, preestablish, rathskellers, rattlesnakes, respectables, restabilizes, restimulates, retranslates, salinometers, secularities, semitrailers, shrievalties, slaughterers, slipstreamed, somersaulted, stakeholders, startlements, steamrollers, stonewallers, streamliners, superalterns, superlatives, terrestrials, timepleasers, transversely, verticalness, weatherglass. | |
+5 letters: antipleasures, antislaveries, artlessnesses, bacteriolyses, blatherskites, characterless, containerless, earthlinesses, elaborateness, erasabilities, eternalnesses, extrasystoles, festivalgoers, heartlessness, heterosexuals, irritableness, laureateships, literalnesses, lucrativeness, masterfulness, naturalnesses, neutralnesses, painterliness, personalities, phalansteries, presbyterials, reescalations, reestablished, reestablishes, relatednesses, reusabilities, semiliterates, somatopleures, southeasterly, specularities, steeplechaser, streetwalkers, subliteracies, summersaulted, superathletes, superelevates, superovulates, tearfulnesses, telegrapheses, telegraphists, tractableness, translucences, unassertively, unearthliness, veritableness, versatileness, versatilities, waterlessness. | |
| 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)54 65 61 72 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .- .-. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e a r l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0061 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471678478718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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