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gardenless

gardenless adjective: without a garden.

Adjective

gardenless (not comparable)

  1. Without a garden.
    • I was disgusted the other day, in a prosperous district of the West Riding, where public-spirited men have erected libraries and institutes for the factory hands, to find that even new cottages are still, as a rule, gardenless or with only a tiny patch.1913, Francis Wrigley Hirst, The Six Panics and Other Essays, page 243
    • Predictably, however, developers made a travesty of Cerdà's plans and a concrete orchard of gardenless, fortress-like, six- or seven-storey blocks grew up instead.2009, Time Out Barcelona, page 99

Origin of gardenless

From garden + -less.

Questions about gardenless

What does gardenless mean?
Gardenless means without a garden.
What part of speech is gardenless?
Gardenless is an adjective.

Words near gardenless in the dictionary

  1. gardenish
  2. gardenize
  3. gardenized
  4. gardenizes
  5. gardenizing
  6. gardenless
  7. gardenlike
  8. gardenly
  9. gardenmaker
  10. gardenmakers
  11. gardenmaking

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