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writerless

writerless adjective: without a writer.

Adjective

writerless (not comparable)

  1. Without a writer.
    • Mr. O’Brien, who also sported a beard, didn’t try to go on as usual, but gave a sober speech in defense of the writers, then turned his show into a long comic riff on his writerless state, spinning his wedding ring for laughs and giving a show-and-tell tour of his office at NBC.2008 January 4, Alessandra Stanley, “Letterman Kvetches, Leno Gets By”, in New York Times

Origin of writerless

From writer + -less.

Questions about writerless

What does writerless mean?
Writerless means without a writer.
What part of speech is writerless?
Writerless is an adjective.

Words near writerless in the dictionary

  1. writercraft
  2. writerdom
  3. writeress
  4. writeresses
  5. writerish
  6. writerless
  7. writerling
  8. writerlings
  9. writerly
  10. writers
  11. writers' blocks

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