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meedless

/ˈmiːdləs/

meedless adjective: uncompensated, unrewarded.

Adjective

meedless (comparative more meedless, superlative most meedless)

  1. uncompensated, unrewarded
    • Therefore hath Far-Darter misfortunes given, and will give; / Nor will he ever withdraw his heavy hands from our ruin, / Ere to her father belovèd the dark-eyed damsel he given, / Ransomless, meedless, and leading a consecrate hundred of oxen / Chrysaward.1877, James A. Martling, transl., The Iliad of Homer. Translated into English Hexameters, Verse for Verse, Book I, Saint Louis: The R. P. Studley Company, […], page 9
    • The chords of the wonderful harmony / Of the earth and the skies?—if so— / We have talked too long till it all seems vain,— / The desire and the hopes that fired, / The triumphs won and the meedless pain, / And the heart that has hoped is tired.1881, Rennell Rodd, “By the South Sea”, in Songs in the South, London: David Bogue, […], page 23

Examples of meedless in a sentence

  • Is a meedless desiring Life’s sentence and doom? / And the food of his strength, is it doubt? / Nay, wandering Echoes!1893, Charles Alva Lane, “Barcarolle”, in The Open Court. A Weekly Journal Devoted to the Religion of Science, volume VII, Chicago: The...
  • They who approached the twice-strong stable’s keeper, meedless, would milk the rocks that naught had shaken.1896, “Book X”, in Ralph T.H. Griffith, transl., The Hymns of the Rgveda, volume II, Low Price Publications; […], published 2004, “Hymn...

Forms of meedless

comparativemore meedless
superlativemost meedless

Origin of meedless

Either formed anew from meed + -less or a calque of Middle English medeles, medles, meydles.

Questions about meedless

What does meedless mean?
Meedless means uncompensated, unrewarded.
How do you use meedless in a sentence?
Is a meedless desiring Life’s sentence and doom? / And the food of his strength, is it doubt? / Nay, wandering Echoes!
What part of speech is meedless?
Meedless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce meedless?
Meedless is pronounced /ˈmiːdləs/.

Words near meedless in the dictionary

  1. Meeder
  2. Meeders
  3. meedful
  4. meeding
  5. meedja
  6. meedless
  7. meeds
  8. meedy
  9. meef
  10. Meegan
  11. Meegans

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