DATELESS

dateless, timeless

(adjective) unaffected by time; “few characters are so dateless as Hamlet”; “Helen’s timeless beauty”

dateless, undated

(adjective) not bearing a date; “a dateless letter”

dateless

(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; “dateless customs”

dateless, endless, sempiternal

(adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end; “the dateless rise and fall of the tides”; “time is endless”; “sempiternal truth”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

dateless (comparative more dateless, superlative most dateless)

Out of one's head; deranged.

(British, dialect, slang) thick-headed

Etymology 2

Adjective

dateless (not comparable)

Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.

Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.

Timeless; immortal

Without a start; immemorial

(archaic) Without an end; endless

Anagrams

• detassel, tasseled

Source: Wiktionary


Date"less, a.

Definition: Without date; having no fixed time.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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