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tenseless

tenseless adjective: lacking grammatical tense.

Adjective

tenseless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking grammatical tense
    • Those who endorse the A-theory of time, for example, often attempt to show that tense is ineliminable, i. e., it is impossible to adequately paraphrase tensed sentences into tenseless ones.2008 August 27, Kevin Dewan, “Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI

Origin of tenseless

From tense + -less.

Words formed from tenseless

Questions about tenseless

What does tenseless mean?
Tenseless means lacking grammatical tense.
What part of speech is tenseless?
Tenseless is an adjective.

Words near tenseless in the dictionary

  1. tensed up
  2. tensegral
  3. tensegrities
  4. tensegritive
  5. tensegrity
  6. tenseless
  7. tenselessly
  8. tenselessness
  9. tensely
  10. tensen
  11. tensened

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