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returnless

/ɹəˈtɜɹnləs/

returnless adjective: from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.).

Adjective

returnless (not comparable)

  1. from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.)
    • Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow.1845, Mrs. F. Beavan, Sketches And Tales Illustrative Of Life In The Backwoods Of New Brunswick
    • They would do an immensity of labor on their returnless journey to the ocean.1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes
  2. which will not return
    • —but now false Memory loosed
      Her time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind,
      Blotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze
      Mid the dim ocean of returnless years.—1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Visit to the venerable Charles Thompson, pages 94–95
    • Pass on, returnless year!1895, Mary Baker Eddy, Pulpit and Press

Origin of returnless

From return + -less.

Words formed from returnless

Questions about returnless

What does returnless mean?
Returnless means from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.).
What part of speech is returnless?
Returnless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce returnless?
Returnless is pronounced /ɹəˈtɜɹnləs/.

Words near returnless in the dictionary

  1. returning the favour
  2. returning to dust
  3. returning to form
  4. returning to one's muttons
  5. returnings
  6. returnless
  7. returnlessly
  8. returnment
  9. returns
  10. returns fire
  11. returns on investment

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