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ravenless

ravenless adjective: without a raven.

Adjective

ravenless (not comparable)

  1. Without a raven.
    • After this mournful deprivation, I was, for a long time, ravenless.1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC
    • Were there still wild ravens flying about England looking for corpses to peck at? June, who had spent most of her life living in the ravenless environs of Clapham, quite frankly had no idea.2006, Hugh Cook, The Succubus and Other Stories, page 579

Origin of ravenless

From raven + -less.

Questions about ravenless

What does ravenless mean?
Ravenless means without a raven.
What part of speech is ravenless?
Ravenless is an adjective.

Words near ravenless in the dictionary

  1. ravening
  2. Raveningham
  3. raveningly
  4. ravenings
  5. ravenish
  6. ravenless
  7. ravenlike
  8. Ravenloftian
  9. ravenly
  10. ravenmaster
  11. ravenmasters

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