dateless

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Out of one's head

   Out of one's head; deranged.

   • Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?
   • 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. 2

   Thick-headed.

   • 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.
3. 3

   Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      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.
      • 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.
   2. 5

      Timeless

      Timeless; immortal

      • the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity
   3. 6

      Without a start

      Without a start; immemorial

   4. 7

      Without an end

      Without an end; endless

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

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