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ratless

ratless adjective: without rats.

Adjective

ratless (not comparable)

  1. Without rats.
    • Given leaders, however, who will keep the rat problem before them as long as there is one live rat, and you'll soon have a ratless community […]1950 September, “Let's kill off the rats”, in The Rotarian, volume 77, number 3

Origin of ratless

From rat + -less.

Words formed from ratless

Questions about ratless

What does ratless mean?
Ratless means without rats.
What part of speech is ratless?
Ratless is an adjective.

Words near ratless in the dictionary

  1. ratiuncules
  2. ratkind
  3. Ratlam
  4. Ratledge
  5. Ratledges
  6. ratless
  7. ratlessness
  8. Ratley
  9. Ratley and Upton
  10. Ratleys
  11. Ratliff

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