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nounless

nounless adjective: without a noun or nouns.

Adjective

nounless (not comparable)

  1. Without a noun or nouns.
    • ...a nameless delight or terror, unattached to any delightful or dreadful thing, a potent adjective floating in a nounless void, a pure quality.1997, Alan Dean, Chaos and Intoxication
    • A nounless language would not have an exact equivalent of English's the child, but it might get along quite well with constructions like the childlike one.2003, Mark C Baker, Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives

Origin of nounless

From noun + -less.

Words formed from nounless

Questions about nounless

What does nounless mean?
Nounless means without a noun or nouns.
What part of speech is nounless?
Nounless is an adjective.

Words near nounless in the dictionary

  1. nouning
  2. nounize
  3. nounized
  4. nounizes
  5. nounizing
  6. nounless
  7. nounlessness
  8. nounlike
  9. nounness
  10. nouns
  11. nouns adjunct

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