Dateless

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdeɪtlɪs/

Unknown. Perhaps derived from Old English þeatless ("thoughtless', "without plan"). See also deedless.

Full definition of dateless

Adjective

1. Out of one's head; deranged.
• 1848, w:Elizabeth Gaskell, w, Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?
• 1863, w:Elizabeth Gaskell, w, 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
• 1881, w, Tufts of heather‎ Chapter The Dead Man's Dinner, An' they geet howd on her, and carried her into Sally Grimshaw's, an' laid her upo' th' couch cheer, as dateless as a stone !
2. (British, dialect, slang) thick-headedThey're so dateless that Burger King will not offer them a job.
• 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
• "You dateless article," stormed his father, leaving Bennett to realise in his laconic way that he was, and probably always would be, a disappointment to Dad.

Coined between 1585 and 1595 from date + -less

“Dateless” at Dictionary.com

“Dateless” in Merriam-Webster

Adjective

1. Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
2. 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.
3. Timeless; immortal
4. Without a start; immemorial
5. (archaic) Without an end; endless
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX,Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
  For precious friends hid in death's dateless night

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