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dayless

dayless adjective: without day.

Adjective

dayless (not comparable)

  1. Without day.
    • And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom1816, Lord Byron, The Prisoner of Chillon

Origin of dayless

From day + -less.

Words formed from dayless

Questions about dayless

What does dayless mean?
Dayless means without day.
What part of speech is dayless?
Dayless is an adjective.

Words near dayless in the dictionary

  1. Dayle
  2. Daylee
  3. daylength
  4. daylengths
  5. Daylesford
  6. dayless
  7. daylessness
  8. Dayley
  9. Dayleys
  10. daylife
  11. daylight

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