DATELESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does dateless mean? • DATELESS (adjective)
The adjective DATELESS has 4 senses:
1. having no known beginning and presumably no end
2. of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date
3. not bearing a date
4. unaffected by time
Familiarity information: DATELESS used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• DATELESS (adjective)
Meaning:
Having no known beginning and presumably no end
Synonyms:
dateless; sempiternal; endless
Context examples:
the dateless rise and fall of the tides / time is endless / sempiternal truth
Similar:
infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)
Meaning:
Of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date
Context example:
dateless customs
Similar:
undatable (not capable of being given a date)
Meaning:
Not bearing a date
Synonyms:
undated; dateless
Context example:
a dateless letter
Similar:
undatable (not capable of being given a date)
Meaning:
Unaffected by time
Synonyms:
timeless; dateless
Context examples:
few characters are so dateless as Hamlet / Helen's timeless beauty
Similar:
unaltered; unchanged (remaining in an original state)
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