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futureless

futureless adjective: without a future.

Adjective

futureless (not comparable)

  1. Without a future.
    • C. forgot the degradation of her return to school. I delighted in writing nothing, not a single word. We were well. We could live forever, futureless, at peace with one another.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 244
  2. That has no future tense.

Origin of futureless

From future + -less.

Words formed from futureless

Questions about futureless

What does futureless mean?
Futureless means without a future.
What part of speech is futureless?
Futureless is an adjective.

Words near futureless in the dictionary

  1. future-proofing
  2. future-proofs
  3. futured
  4. futurefic
  5. futurefics
  6. futureless
  7. futurelessly
  8. futurelessness
  9. futurelike
  10. futurely
  11. futureness

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