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warless

warless adjective: without war, devoid of war.

Adjective

warless (not comparable)

  1. Without war, devoid of war.
    • Alas! in this he did not prove himself a true prophet, although it must be conceded that many wars have been averted or shortened by means of the telegraph, and there are some who hope that a warless age is even now being conceived in the womb of time.1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals
    • It is really quite idle to dream of a warless world in which States are still absolutely free to annoy one another with tariffs, with the blocking and squeezing of trade routes, with the ill-treatment of immigrants and travelling strangers, and between which there is no means of settling boundary...1916, H. G. Wells, What is Coming?

Origin of warless

From war + -less.

Words formed from warless

Questions about warless

What does warless mean?
Warless means without war, devoid of war.
What part of speech is warless?
Warless is an adjective.

Words near warless in the dictionary

  1. Warland
  2. Warlands
  3. warleader
  4. warleaders
  5. Warleggan
  6. warless
  7. warlessly
  8. warlessness
  9. Warley
  10. Warleys
  11. Warli

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