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overtakeless

overtakeless adjective: impossible to overtake or surpass.

Adjective

overtakeless (comparative more overtakeless, superlative most overtakeless)

  1. (poetic, rare) Impossible to overtake or surpass.
    • All along the way was the tangle of branches I'd cut this season—just as overtakeless as the wickets of the living.2023, Tiffany Eberle Kriner, In Thought, Word, and Seed: Reckonings from a Midwest Farm, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., →ISBN, unnumbered page

Forms of overtakeless

comparativemore overtakeless
superlativemost overtakeless

Origin of overtakeless

From overtake + -less.

Words formed from overtakeless

Questions about overtakeless

What does overtakeless mean?
Overtakeless means impossible to overtake or surpass.
What part of speech is overtakeless?
Overtakeless is an adjective.

Words near overtakeless in the dictionary

  1. overtagging
  2. overtags
  3. overtakable
  4. overtake
  5. overtakeable
  6. overtakeless
  7. overtakelessness
  8. overtaken
  9. overtakenness
  10. overtaker
  11. overtakers

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