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  • adjective That does not involve theory or has no theoretical basis.

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theory +‎ -less

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Examples

  • I groaned and pished and pshawed, but as it was written that I was to live, I resigned myself to a barren and theoryless existence.

    The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel William John Locke 1896

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