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doerless

doerless adjective: not involving a doer.

Adjective

doerless (not comparable)

  1. Not involving a doer.
    • If you still assert that a deed is being done then that deed must be regarded as doerless.1898, Sarat Chandra Das, “Buddhist Account of the Four Vedas”, in Journal of the Buddhist Text and Anthropological Society, page 9
    • Silence in action is the doerless doing that we've spoken of before, in which you just wash the dishes, just vacuum the floor.1999, Sharon Salzberg, Voices of Insight

Origin of doerless

From doer + -less.

Questions about doerless

What does doerless mean?
Doerless means not involving a doer.
What part of speech is doerless?
Doerless is an adjective.

Words near doerless in the dictionary

  1. doer-uppers
  2. Doerfler
  3. Doerflers
  4. Doering
  5. Doerings
  6. doerless
  7. Doerner
  8. Doerners
  9. Doerr
  10. Doerrs
  11. doers

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