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verseless

verseless adjective: without poetry.

Adjective

verseless (not comparable)

  1. Without poetry.
    • Yet in spite of today's boom in books and libraries, some children still live in a verseless world.1978, Parents and Children, volumes 16-18, page 25
  2. Not divided into verses.
    • After making several changes (such as shifting the time signature from 3/4 to 4/4, changing “will” to “shall,” and dropping the old verses, making it a verseless song that was all chorus with a number of new lines to provide variety), […]2013, Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, volume 1, page 695

Origin of verseless

From verse + -less.

Questions about verseless

What does verseless mean?
Verseless means without poetry.
What part of speech is verseless?
Verseless is an adjective.

Words near verseless in the dictionary

  1. versed
  2. versed cosine
  3. versed cosines
  4. versed sine
  5. versed sines
  6. verseless
  7. verselet
  8. verselets
  9. verself
  10. verselike
  11. versemaker

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