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captainless

captainless adjective: without a captain.

Adjective

captainless (not comparable)

  1. Without a captain.

Origin of captainless

From captain + -less.

Questions about captainless

What does captainless mean?
Captainless means without a captain.
What part of speech is captainless?
Captainless is an adjective.

Words near captainless in the dictionary

  1. captaines
  2. captainess
  3. captainesses
  4. captaining
  5. captainish
  6. captainless
  7. captainlike
  8. captainly
  9. captainries
  10. captainry
  11. captains

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