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languageless

languageless adjective: without language.

Adjective

languageless (not comparable)

  1. Without language.
    • No languageless human society has ever been discovered on the earth.1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2
    • But in practice, we are not born into any particular language at all: all babies are languageless at the start of life.2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 61

Origin of languageless

From language + -less.

Words formed from languageless

Questions about languageless

What does languageless mean?
Languageless means without language.
What part of speech is languageless?
Languageless is an adjective.

Words near languageless in the dictionary

  1. language-learners
  2. language-learning
  3. language-oriented
  4. languaged
  5. languagehood
  6. languageless
  7. languagelessness
  8. languagelike
  9. languageness
  10. languager
  11. languagers

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