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netless

netless adjective: lacking a net.

Adjective

netless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a net.
    • In the demo, this drama is captured by footage of a teenager, small and spindly, walking across a vacant lot, basketball in hand, to a netless court in a nearby school yard.1988 February 5, Ben Joravsky, “Basketball dreams: filmmakers find a passport to black culture”, in Chicago Reader
  2. Without Internet access.
    • For the netless, id [software company] plans to ship 500,000 copies of a CD-ROM-based version to retail stores.1996, TIME, page 62

Origin of netless

From net + -less.

Questions about netless

What does netless mean?
Netless means lacking a net.
What part of speech is netless?
Netless is an adjective.

Words near netless in the dictionary

  1. netlabels
  2. netlag
  3. netlayer
  4. netlayers
  5. netleaf
  6. netless
  7. Netley
  8. Netley Marsh
  9. netlike
  10. netlinguistics
  11. Netlish

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