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alertless en · ADJ

Etymology

From alert + -less.

Meanings

1. (rare) Synonym of unalert.
   • Once in a while some attorney is found who does not realize his social responsibility to the community, who rants and wails about furnishing legal aid to the poor, but he is of the negative, inactive, alertless kind. 1916, National Conference of Legal Aid Bureaus and Societies, First Conference of Legal Aid Societies of the United States, page 43:
2. (rare) Without an alert.
   • Before darkness fell, great dock fires were raging in the East End of London and this was followed by 247 planes bombing indiscriminately until near dawn. London was not to have another alertless night until 3 November. 2014, David Clampin, Advertising and Propaganda in World War II:

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Synonyms

unalert