DATELESS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Simple definitions and word synonyms for kids.

Part of speech: Adjective

having no known beginning and presumably no end

Example: the dateless rise and fall of the tides; time is endless; sempiternal truth

Part of speech: Adjective

of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date

Example: dateless customs

Part of speech: Adjective

not bearing a date

Example: a dateless letter

Part of speech: Adjective

unaffected by time

Example: few characters are so dateless as Hamlet; Helen's timeless beauty

The word "dateless" comes from Old English þeatless.

deedless – A related word in the same word family.

date – A related word in the same word family.

less – A related word in the same word family.

Old English shared many words with Old Norse due to Viking settlements in England.