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wireless

Syllables: wire·lessUK/ˈwaɪə.ləs//ˈwaɪ(jə)ɹ.ləs/

wireless adjective: not having any wires.

Adjective

wireless (not comparable)

  1. Not having any wires.
  2. Functioning without an external wired connection.
    • wireless headphones
    • wireless charging

Noun

wireless (usually uncountable, plural (dated) wirelesses)

  1. (usually) The medium of radio communication.
    • Only about a hundred years ago, wireless was a new technology.
    • It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”1935, George Goodchild, chapter 3, in Death on the Centre Court
  2. (usually) A wireless connectivity to a computer network.
    • If your wireless stops working, try restarting the router.
  3. (UK, dated, usually) A radio set.
    • Let's switch on the wireless and listen to the news.
    • I heard you on my wireless back in '521979, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley, “Video Killed the Radio Star”

Verb

wireless (third-person singular simple present wirelesses, present participle wirelessing, simple past and past participle wirelessed)

  1. (dated, obsolete, transitive) To send (a message) by wireless or radio.
    • At 3:30 A.M. a huge Zeppelin flew across the British battle line, wirelessing down to any Germans still to the westward the best way to get home.1919, William Charles Henry Wood, Flag and Fleet
    • Just outside Piraeus we circled low over a capsized fishing-boat, a grisly wreck in the crystal blue water, and wirelessed a description of it to the mainland.1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 1

wireless meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

wireless in Hindi

of or relating to wireless telegraphy
बेतार betār
not having any wires
बेतार betār
radio
रेडियो reḍiyo

wireless in Tamil

அகம்பி, கம்பியால் இணைக்கப்படாத, கம்பியற்ற இணைப்பு, கம்பியில்லா

wireless in Marathi

wireless
बिनतारी bintārī

wireless in Urdu

not having any wires
بے تار betār, لا سلکی lā silkī
More languagesFewer languages
wireless in Bengali
বেতার, রেডিত্ত, বেতারযন্ত্র, বেতারবার্তা
wireless in Telugu
తీగెలేని tīgelēni
wireless in Malayalam
വയർലെസ്
wireless in Kannada
ತಂತಿಯಿಲ, ತಂತಿಯಿಲವಾದ
wireless in Punjabi
ਵਾਇਰਲੈੱਸ, ਵਾਇਰਲੈੱਸਿੰਗ, ਵਾਇਰਲੈਸਿੰਗ
wireless in Gujarati
બિનતારી bintārī
wireless in Odia
ୱେଯ଼ାରଲେସ୍, ୱେଯ଼ାରଲେସ, ୱେଯ଼ାରଲେସିଂ
wireless in Assamese
বেতাঁৰ betãr
wireless in Nepali
वायरलेस, वाइरलेस, ताररहितकरण
wireless in Tagalog
awangkawad, walang-kawad
wireless in Arabic
لَاسِلْكِيّ lāsilkiyy
wireless in Malay
wayarles, nirwayar, radio
wireless in Indonesian
nirkabel
wireless in Thai
ไร้สาย rái-sǎai
wireless in Vietnamese
không dây, vô tuyến
Sindhi
ريتار retār

Examples of wireless in a sentence

  • The two instruments recorded the same delicate vibrations of sound and formed a wireless telephone, an invention of the Wizard.1914, L. Frank Baum, Tik-Tok of Oz:
  • In the corner of that dark back room stood a black and white television—their one nod to modernity—and beside it, two old wirelesses and a headset that had not seen action since the TV arrived.2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 2:

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Synonyms of wireless

Antonyms

Forms of wireless

Noun
plural (dated)wirelesses
Verb
third-person singular presentwirelesses
present participlewirelessing
past participlewirelessed
pastwirelessed

Origin of wireless

From wire + -less.

Words formed from wireless

Phrases with wireless

Questions about wireless

What does wireless mean?
Wireless means not having any wires.
What is wireless in Hindi?
Wireless in Hindi is बेतार (betār), रेडियो (reḍiyo). See Wireless meaning in Hindi.
How do you use wireless in a sentence?
The two instruments recorded the same delicate vibrations of sound and formed a wireless telephone, an invention of the Wizard.
What part of speech is wireless?
Wireless can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce wireless?
Wireless is pronounced /ˈwaɪə.ləs/ (UK).

Words near wireless in the dictionary

  1. wireheads
  2. wirehouse
  3. wirehouses
  4. wirelength
  5. wirelengths
  6. wireless
  7. wireless adapter
  8. wireless adapters
  9. wireless broadband
  10. wireless cable
  11. wireless fidelity

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wireless (page history and authors); wireless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); बिनतारी (Marathi) (page history and authors); wireless (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wireless (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wireless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wireless (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); બિનતારી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); wireless (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); বেতাঁৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors); wireless (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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