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queenless

queenless adjective: without a queen.

Adjective

queenless (not comparable)

  1. Without a queen.
    • Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess.2012, Neil McDonald, Chess Success: Planning After the Opening, page 55
    • We have yet to identify every factor involved, but one variable is whether the nest contains a queen ant (queenright) or is queenless.2012, Andrew Pullin, Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies

Antonyms of queenless

Origin of queenless

From queen + -less.

Questions about queenless

What does queenless mean?
Queenless means without a queen.
What part of speech is queenless?
Queenless is an adjective.

Words near queenless in the dictionary

  1. queenish
  2. Queenist
  3. Queenists
  4. Queenite
  5. Queenites
  6. queenless
  7. queenlessness
  8. queenlet
  9. queenlets
  10. queenlier
  11. queenliest

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