Word.ws English Dictionary

receiverless

receiverless adjective: without a receiver.

Adjective

receiverless (not comparable)

  1. Without a receiver.
    • The pay phone on the corner has been vandalized, and its metal cord hangs limply down, receiverless.1998, David R. Karp, Community Justice: An Emerging Field, page 50

Origin of receiverless

From receiver + -less.

Questions about receiverless

What does receiverless mean?
Receiverless means without a receiver.
What part of speech is receiverless?
Receiverless is an adjective.

Words near receiverless in the dictionary

  1. receivedness
  2. receivedst
  3. receiver
  4. receiver general
  5. receiver-general
  6. receiverless
  7. receivers
  8. receivers-general
  9. receivership
  10. receiverships
  11. receives

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: receiverless (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “receiverless.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/receiverless. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.