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In some senses, dateless is marked as slang, archaic, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
other
VERB + DATELESS
cheer, ended, gone
DATELESS + NOUN
friday, life, saturday, stone
PREP.
on, up, with
adj
Out of one's head; deranged.
Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?
and he were put in York prison and tried and hung – hung! Charley! – kind father was hung on a gallows and mother lost sense and grew silly in grief and we were like to be turned on t' wide world and poor mother dateless
Thick-headed.
Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing.
You dateless fool, you stupid ass, clamped to / This crag for all eternity
adj
Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
The other day was dateless, even for my dateless life; for I had forgotten time and had no notion of anything anywhere, when in a small French town I strolled into a cafe noisy with French talk.
Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.
It is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night.
They were good friends, completely at ease with each other, and when they both ended up dateless on a Friday night, as they often did, they usually ended up eating pizza and watching scary movies together.
Timeless; immortal
the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity
Without a start; immemorial
Without an end; endless
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, / For precious friends hid in death's dateless night
Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?
Wiktionaryand he were put in York prison and tried and hung – hung! Charley! – kind father was hung on a gallows and mother lost sense and grew silly in grief and we were like to be turned on t' wide world and
WiktionaryAn' they geet howd on her, and carried her into Sally Grimshaw's, an' laid her upo' th' couch cheer, as dateless as a stone !
WiktionaryThe other day was dateless, even for my dateless life; for I had forgotten time and had no notion of anything anywhere, when in a small French town I strolled into a cafe noisy with French talk.
WiktionaryIt is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night.
WiktionaryThey were good friends, completely at ease with each other, and when they both ended up dateless on a Friday night, as they often did, they usually ended up eating pizza and watching scary movies toge
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In some senses, dateless is marked as slang, archaic, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.