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chapterless

chapterless adjective: without chapters.

Adjective

chapterless (not comparable)

  1. Without chapters.
    • The time span of this chapterless narrative is approximately two days, and in that period Druff spends many hours being driven around the city by his chauffeur, “Dick the spy,” fantasizing himself the victim of sting operations, reminiscing about the days when he first met his wife (who had managed...1991 March 10, Lorrie Moore, “Bobbo Druff’s Alcoholic Vaudeville”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015
    • Fans of “Oliver Twist” had to sit through chapterless months three times in the novel’s two-year run in Bentley’s Miscellany.2006 December 24, Bill Carter, “When Writers Escaped the 42-Minute Box”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

Origin of chapterless

From chapter + -less.

Questions about chapterless

What does chapterless mean?
Chapterless means without chapters.
What part of speech is chapterless?
Chapterless is an adjective.

Words near chapterless in the dictionary

  1. chapterhouse
  2. chapterhouses
  3. chaptering
  4. chaptering out
  5. chapterings
  6. chapterless
  7. chapterlike
  8. chapterly
  9. chapterplay
  10. chapterplays
  11. chapters

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