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degreeless

degreeless adjective: without an academic degree.

Adjective

degreeless (not comparable)

  1. Without an academic degree.
    • There also went the confidential secretaries, the clerks and shorthand typists, in their hundreds; degreeless, brainless beings, but wise in their generation. '1920, Rose Macaulay, Potterism
    • A university can confer a degree upon a distinguished man because it can judge whether his degreeless condition is due to accident or not.1912, Emile Faguet, The Cult of Incompetence
  2. Without extent or measure.

Origin of degreeless

From degree + -less.

Words formed from degreeless

Questions about degreeless

What does degreeless mean?
Degreeless means without an academic degree.
What part of speech is degreeless?
Degreeless is an adjective.

Words near degreeless in the dictionary

  1. degree sequence
  2. degree sequences
  3. degree-day
  4. degree-days
  5. degreed
  6. degreeless
  7. degreelessness
  8. degreen
  9. degreened
  10. degreenified
  11. degreenifies

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