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witchless

witchless adjective: without witches.

Adjective

witchless (not comparable)

  1. Without witches.
    • I have never favoured the witchless approach to Macbeth. Once the necromantic imperative driving the central characters has been hacked out, the play turns into pointless, gory thriller.1993, Plays and players, numbers 466-477, page 15
    • In depicting the protagonist's rite-of-passage move to a witchless town and survival therein by her skills, Kiki also places considerable emphasis on the values of politeness and propriety[…]2006, Dani Cavallaro, The Animé Art of Hayao Miyazaki, page 83

Origin of witchless

From witch + -less.

Questions about witchless

What does witchless mean?
Witchless means without witches.
What part of speech is witchless?
Witchless is an adjective.

Words near witchless in the dictionary

  1. witchity grub
  2. witchity grubs
  3. witchkind
  4. witchking
  5. witchkings
  6. witchless
  7. witchlet
  8. witchlets
  9. witchlike
  10. witchling
  11. witchlings

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