Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Unlettered; illiterate; not learned.
Wiktionary
- adj. Without the presence or use of alphabetical letters.
- adj. Illiterate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not having a letter.
- adj. obsolete Illiterate.
Etymologies
- letter + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Had he been the kind of letterless country fellow, or bookless fellow whom the Baconians and Mr. Greenwood describe, the contemporary witnesses cited must have detected Will in a day; and the story of the "Concealed Poet" who really, at first, did the additions and changes in the Company's older manuscript plays, and of the inconceivably impudent pretences of Will of Stratford, would have kept the town merry for a month.”
“Letters after a name do not modify character, they are there to confuse the letterless ones, just like a magicians wand is used, to get the hoi polloi [gnu] looking the other way while getting sheered.”
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“If you're the type who just can't let go, whose 'Berry is worn to letterless nibs, who hears the buzz of an insect and reaches for your holster, I bring help.”
“I passed by a ruined tomb in the I past by a broken tomb amid midst of a garden way, Upon a garth right sheen, Whereon whose letterless stone seven on seven blooms of Nu'aman blood-red anemones lay. glowed with cramoisie.”
“When the narrative is able to be resumed one finds that Wenamon has set sail from the city, and has travelled along the coast to the proud city of Tyre, where he arrived one afternoon penniless and letterless, having now nothing left but the little Amon-of-the-Road and his own audacity.”
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“South, letterless barbarian pagans from the East and North.”
“As was to be expected, after nearly three almost letterless years, I found rare delight in replying to my reawakened correspondents.”
“Payne Burton I passed by a ruined tomb in the I past by a broken tomb amid midst of a garden way, Upon a garth right sheen, Whereon whose letterless stone seven on seven blooms of Nu'aman blood-red anemones lay. glowed with cramoisie.”
“The weeks went on, and every week of seven letterless mornings, every week of seven anxious nights, made the sisters more fully aware that notice and employment would not come to them in the way they had dreamed; made them think it well that”
“If three days go by without a letter she telegraphs to know if the asylum has burned; whereas, if you -- nice man -- go letterless, you simply send us a present to remind us of your existence.”
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
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