adj
Meaning 1
Out of one's head; deranged.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dateless
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈdeɪtlɪs/
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adj
Meaning 2
Thick-headed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, dialectal, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, airheaded, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, Boeotian, boneheaded, boofheaded, braindead, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, crackbrained, cretinous, daft, dense, dented, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, dim, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dull, dumber than a box of rocks, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatheaded, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, goofy, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, inane, insipid, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, nitwitted, numbskulled, oafish, obtuse, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, ridiculous, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, silly, simple, slow, slow on the uptake, slow-witted, smooth-brained, stolid, stupid, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, thick, unapprehensive, unclever, uninformed, unintelligent, unsmart, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as an ox, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as dirt, dumber than a rock, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as two short planks, thick as a whale omelette, ass-brained, fuckwitted, shit-for-brains, thick as pig shit
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adj
Meaning 4
Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- It is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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adj
Meaning 5
Timeless; immortal
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adj
Meaning 6
Without a start; immemorial
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adj
Meaning 7
Without an end; endless
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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adjective satellite
Meaning 8
unaffected by time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- few characters are so dateless as Hamlet
- Helen's timeless beauty
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: timeless
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
not bearing a date
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a dateless letter
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: undated
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 10
of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- dateless customs
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adjective satellite
Meaning 11
having no known beginning and presumably no end
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the dateless rise and fall of the tides
- time is endless
- sempiternal truth
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: endless, sempiternal
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps derived from Old English þeatless (“thoughtless, without plan”). See also deedless.
Coined between 1585 and 1595 from date + -less
Real reading context