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sakeless

sakeless is the alternative form of sackless.

Meaning of sackless

Adjective (1)

sackless (not comparable)

  1. Without a sack.
    • The first act consisted of dancing, capering, and tumbling, by about twenty men, enveloped in sacks […] At length, at a given signal by the manager, the whole troop of actors rushed to the spot; they were then sackless, but their features were effectually concealed by masks reaching to the bosom.1830, The Spirit of the English Magazines, page 200

Adjective (2)

sackless (comparative more sackless, superlative most sackless)

  1. (Northern England, archaic, poetic, provincial) Blameless, guiltless, innocent.
    • […] And where that sackless knight lies slain, […]
      The candles will burn bright.1838, Walter Scott, The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: with the author's introductions and notes, page 196

Forms of sakeless

comparativemore sakeless
superlativemost sakeless

Origin of sakeless

By surface analysis, sake + -less.

Questions about sakeless

What is sakeless the alternative form of?
Sakeless is the alternative form of sackless.

Words near sakeless in the dictionary

  1. sakebiose
  2. sakeen
  3. sakeens
  4. Sakel
  5. Sakelaris
  6. sakeless
  7. saker
  8. Saker falcon
  9. Saker falcons
  10. sakeret
  11. sakerets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sakeless (page history and authors); sackless (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.

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