dateless — Słownik języka angielskiego

Przymiotnik

1. Out of one's head; deranged.

   Przykłady

   Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?

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   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

   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. Thick-headed.

   Użycie

   • użycie brytyjskie
   • dialectal
   • slangowe

   Przykłady

   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

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   "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.

Przymiotnik

1. Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.

   Użycie

   • not-comparable

   Przykłady

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   The other day was dateless, even for my dateless life; for I had forgotten time and had no notion of anything anywhere, when in a small French town I strolled into a cafe noisy with French talk.

2. Having no date (meeting with a lover or potential lover).

   Użycie

   • not-comparable

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   It is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night.

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   They were good friends, completely at ease with each other, and when they both ended up dateless on a Friday night, as they often did, they usually ended up eating pizza and watching scary movies together.

3. Timeless; immortal; endless.

   Użycie

   • not-comparable

   Przykłady

   Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, / For precious friends hid in death's dateless night

   the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity

4. Without a start; immemorial.

   Użycie

   • not-comparable

Przymiotnik

1. having no known beginning and presumably no end

   Synonimy

   endlesssempiternal

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   the dateless rise and fall of the tides

   time is endless

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   sempiternal truth

2. of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date

   Przykłady

   dateless customs

3. not bearing a date

   Synonimy

   undated

   Przykłady

   a dateless letter

4. unaffected by time

   Synonimy

   timeless

   Przykłady

   few characters are so dateless as Hamlet

   Helen's timeless beauty