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anchorless

anchorless adjective: lacking an anchor; adrift.

Adjective

anchorless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking an anchor; adrift
    • "Without God, this society would be anchorless."2009 January 4, Ian Urbina, “Lawmaker in Kentucky Mixes Piety and Politics”, in New York Times

Origin of anchorless

From anchor + -less.

Words formed from anchorless

Questions about anchorless

What does anchorless mean?
Anchorless means lacking an anchor; adrift.
What part of speech is anchorless?
Anchorless is an adjective.

Words near anchorless in the dictionary

  1. anchoritesses
  2. anchoritic
  3. anchoritically
  4. anchoritish
  5. anchoritism
  6. anchorless
  7. anchorlessness
  8. anchorlike
  9. anchorman
  10. anchormen
  11. anchorpeople

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