childless
childless adjective: not having any children.
Adjective
childless (not comparable)
- Not having any children.
- I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?1899 January 7 – May 5, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in When the Sleeper Wakes, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1899, →OCLC
- “He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said. “He is the very reason that MAGA started in the first place, and we only have to look at 2016 when he was a vehement Trump hater. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.”2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNN
- Synonyms:
- babyless, childrenless, kidless, offspringless
childless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
childless in Hindi
- not having any children — see also child-free
- संतानहीन santānhīn
childless in Tamil
- பிள்ளையில்லாத, மகப்பேறில்லாத, குழந்தையற்ற
childless in Marathi
- अपत्य नसलेले, अपत्य नसलेली
childless in Urdu
- بانجھ, بےاولاد
More languagesFewer languages
- childless in Bengali
- নিঃসন্তান, সন্তানহীন
- childless in Telugu
- సంతానం లేని వారు, సంతానం లేనివారు, సంతానం లేనిది
- childless in Malayalam
- മക്കളില്ലാത്തവർ, കുട്ടികളില്ലാത്തവർ
- childless in Kannada
- ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಲ್ಲದವರು, ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಲ್ಲದವಳು
- childless in Punjabi
- ਬੇਔਲਾਦ
- childless in Gujarati
- નિઃસંતાન, સંતાનહીન
- childless in Odia
- ନିଃସନ୍ତାନ, ସନ୍ତାନହୀନ
- childless in Nepali
- सन्तानविहीन, निःसंतान, सन्तानहीन
- childless in Arabic
- أَبْتَر ʔabtar
Examples of childless in a sentence
- Being single, and childless—or child-free, as she would put it—she can do that.
- She is placed at the end of generations: an antigenerative force, childless, perverted, an incestuous offspring.
- The hall was brilliantly lit, pernicketily tidy, the hall of a childless couple.
Synonyms of childless
Origin of childless
From Middle English childles; equivalent to child + -less.
Words formed from childless
Questions about childless
- What does childless mean?
- Childless means not having any children.
- What is childless in Hindi?
- Childless in Hindi is संतानहीन (santānhīn). See Childless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is childless?
- Childless is an adjective.
Words near childless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: childless (page history and authors); childless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); childless (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); childless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); childless (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); childless (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); childless (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); childless (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); childless (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); childless (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); childless (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); childless (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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