Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Mysterious and inscrutable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Eluding search or investigation; inscrutable; unsearchable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

Etymologies

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search +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Only two blogs out of 9 are from the left, 3, Daily Kos and 10, Talking points though adding "searchless" Eschaton would give 3 out of 10, still surprisingly meager in the Internet wars.

    The view from the left and the right 2005

  • Only two blogs out of 9 are from the left, 3, Daily Kos and 10, Talking points though adding "searchless" Eschaton would give 3 out of 10, still surprisingly meager in the Internet wars.

    07/17/2005 - 07/24/2005 2005

  • Those hearts in dust which would thy searchless works have weighed?

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Those hearts in dust which would thy searchless works have weighed?

    The Revolt of Islam 1901

  • Add to this, great pride of character, so closely curtained as to be almost searchless to herself, with a passion for adventure and novel achievements, and she has in all an amount of temptation to poor human nature that can be overmastered only by strong conflicts and strong faith.

    The Grimke Sisters Birney, Catherine H. 1885

  • Those hearts in dust which would thy searchless works have weighed?

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • Those hearts in dust which would thy searchless works have weighed?

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • "If search engines were never invented or they ceased to exist tomorrow, how would you build traffic to your website in a searchless world?"

    Ideal Absolutes 2009

  • The retainers soon retired, and Lovat (on whom drink made no impression) found means to unlock every other mind, and keep his own designs impenetrably secret; while the ludicrous and careless air of his discourse helped to put people off their guard; and searchless cunning and boundless ambition were hid under the mask of careless hilarity. "

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

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