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rescueless

rescueless adjective: without rescue or release.

Adjective

rescueless (comparative more rescueless, superlative most rescueless)

  1. Without rescue or release.
    • Nobody answeres the phone at Blood Island, so us Negresses are consigned to sit rescueless amid the smell of squandered blood, bowel movements, and disinfectant in a hospital my mother refused to give birth in and Eddie refused to die in.2009, Angela Jackson, Where I Must Go, page 130
    • Ominipotent Gus who had led her out of the floods and rescued the beasts! Rescueless himself, he tumbled to the boards.2014, Thomas Keneally, Woman of the Inner Sea

Forms of rescueless

comparativemore rescueless
superlativemost rescueless

Origin of rescueless

From rescue + -less.

Questions about rescueless

What does rescueless mean?
Rescueless means without rescue or release.
What part of speech is rescueless?
Rescueless is an adjective.

Words near rescueless in the dictionary

  1. rescue therapies
  2. rescue therapy
  3. rescued
  4. rescuee
  5. rescuees
  6. rescueless
  7. rescueman
  8. rescuemen
  9. rescuer
  10. rescuers
  11. rescues

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