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fordless

fordless adjective: without a ford.

Adjective

fordless (not comparable)

  1. Without a ford.
    • Between our human nature and the nature they desiderate there is a deep and fordless river, over which they can throw no bridge, and all their talk supposes that we shall be able to fly or wade across it […]1879, William Hurrell Mallock, Is Life Worth Living?
    • Drona poured forth a river of death. […] Not fish but swords swam in its fordless waters, and elephants and horses were where sharks might have been.2006, Maha-bhárata, Book 7, Volume 1, Clay Sanskrit Library, edited and translated by Vaughan Pilikian, New York University Press, p. 185

Origin of fordless

From ford + -less.

Questions about fordless

What does fordless mean?
Fordless means without a ford.
What part of speech is fordless?
Fordless is an adjective.

Words near fordless in the dictionary

  1. Fordize
  2. Fordized
  3. Fordizes
  4. Fordizing
  5. Fordlandia
  6. fordless
  7. fordo
  8. fordoes
  9. fordoing
  10. fordone
  11. Fordonomics

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