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gatless

gatless adjective: careless, heedless.

Adjective

gatless (comparative more gatless, superlative most gatless)

  1. (dialectal) careless, heedless
    • Well, she was that frightened, she’d always been such a gatless girl, that she didn’t so much as know how to spin, and what was she to do to-morrow with no one to come nigh her to help her?1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Tom Tit Tot”, in English Fairy Tales, page 3

Forms of gatless

comparativemore gatless
superlativemost gatless

Questions about gatless

What does gatless mean?
Gatless means careless, heedless.
What part of speech is gatless?
Gatless is an adjective.

Words near gatless in the dictionary

  1. gating
  2. gating off
  3. gatings
  4. gatka
  5. Gatland
  6. gatless
  7. Gatley
  8. Gatlin
  9. Gatlinburg
  10. Gatling
  11. Gatling gun

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