without
advEtymology
From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out. Superseded non-native Middle English sauns, sans (“without”), from Old French sans, sanz, senz (“without”). Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *bez (“without”) (<+ Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs (“out”)).
Definitions
Outside, externally.
- Strange silence here: without, the sounding street Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
- I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without.
Lacking something
Lacking something; failing.
- Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
- We've run out of bread; you'll have to do without until I can get to the bakeshop.
- Whose can be used with a following noun or without.
Without a condom being worn.
- “What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.”
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Outside of, beyond.
- MACBETH: There's blood upon your face. FIRST MURDERER: 'Tis Banquo's then. MACBETH: 'Tis better thee without than he within.
- Without the gate / Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.
Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
- It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
- I was without formal education but was well read and articulate.
- From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
Not doing or not having done something.
- He likes to eat everything without sharing.
- He shot without warning anyone.
- Without noticing it I grew old.
Unless, except (introducing a clause).
- You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no matter.
- ‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—’
The neighborhood
- synonymlacking
- synonymoutwith
- synonymwith no
- synonym-less
- synonymw/o
- synonymsans
- synonym-free
- synonymminus
- synonymdevoid of
- synonymexcluding
- synonymexcusing
- synonymneglecting
- antonymwithinantonym(s) of “outside”
- antonymwithantonym(s) of “not having”
- antonymhavingantonym(s) of “not having”
- antonymcharacteristic ofantonym(s) of “not having”
- antonymendowed withantonym(s) of “not having”
- antonymincluding
- neighborexemption
Derived
Calne Without, Chippenham Without, Clifton Without, Llanidloes Without, make it do or do without, Melksham Without, Millom Without, Minehead Without, St Cuthbert Without, Wellington Without, do without, go without, absence without leave, absent without leave, a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle, can't live with them and can't live without them, cold without, decimal without a zero, distinction without a difference, face without makeup, fly without a licence, go without saying, handle without gloves, handle without mittens, it goes without saying, let he who is without sin cast the first stone, let him that is without sin cast the first stone, let him who is without sin cast the first stone, Life without Death, make bricks without clay, make bricks without straw, make bricks without straws, make off without payment, making off without payment, may the Force be without you, minister without portfolio, no gain without pain, no rose without a thorn, no show without Punch · +61 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for without. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA