gateless

Adjective

gateless (not comparable)

1. Without a gate.
   • The metals from Upnor to the boarded-up Tankfield signal box (by a gateless level crossing) were very rarely used.1941 May, J. Ronald Hayton, “The Chattenden & Upnor Narrow-Gauge Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 208
   • Anthony Sparno’s days are usually filled with silent hours tending his gateless 12-acre cemetery.2007 March 18, Roja Heydarpour, “At Muslim Resting Place, 5 New Child-Size Graves”, in New York Times
2. (broadly) Boundless; unrestricted.
   • First, Negroes are trapped—as many whites are trapped—in inherited, gateless poverty.2004, Ronald H. Bayor, The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, →ISBN
   • We're left to our own devices, you and I, emancipated and gateless.2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel, →ISBN