miceless
miceless adjective: without mice.
Adjective
miceless (not comparable)
- Without mice.
- Her height was a trifle over the medium; her eyes a soft expressive brown, shaded by masses of hair which exactly matched their color, and, at that rat-and-miceless day, fell in such graceful abandon as to show at once that nature was the only maid who crimped their waves into them.1867, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, “A Brace of Boys”, in Little Brother; and Other Genre-Pictures, Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shepard, pages 263–264
- Cats come from all directions when thresher starts. They can’t understand why newly-built ricks are miceless, and look puzzled as they search barren sheaves …1940, The Countryman: A Quarterly Non-Party Review and Miscellany of Rural Life and Work for the English-speaking World, page 18
Forms of miceless
| alternative form | mice-less |
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Origin of miceless
From mice + -less.
Questions about miceless
- What does miceless mean?
- Miceless means without mice.
- What part of speech is miceless?
- Miceless is an adjective.
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