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driveless

driveless adjective: without any psychological drives; inert.

Adjective

driveless (not comparable)

  1. Without any psychological drives; inert.
  2. Without a (mechanical or computer) drive.
    • When you sit at a Mac that does have a drive and turn on this option, those driveless computers on the network can “see,” and borrow, your Mac's DVD drive for the purpose of installing new software or running Mac disk-repair software.2018, David Pogue, MacOS High Sierra: The Missing Manual, page 368

Origin of driveless

From drive + -less.

Words formed from driveless

Questions about driveless

What does driveless mean?
Driveless means without any psychological drives; inert.
What part of speech is driveless?
Driveless is an adjective.

Words near driveless in the dictionary

  1. driveheads
  2. drivel
  3. driveled
  4. driveler
  5. drivelers
  6. driveless
  7. drivelessness
  8. drivelike
  9. driveline
  10. drivelines
  11. driveling

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