carless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English car Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English carless From car + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a car.
Forty five per cent of carless households had a retired head […]
2002, Anne M Findlay, Leigh Sparks, The Environments for Retailing, →ISBN, page 153:Mr. Pence, the first sitting vice president to visit Mackinac Island, is apparently also the first government official to break with the island’s carless tradition.
2019 September 22, Vanessa Swales, “A Motorcade on Mackinac Island? Pence’s Visit Breaks a Long Tradition”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2019:Getting back could be harder; something about one-way streets and disappearing exits and maybe late hours and a drink or two. Going there carless was a different story, you didn't have to worry about staying oriented or parking then; but there was either the subway or a ride home to negotiate.
1980 December 20, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “A Personal Remembrance Of The Saints”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 13:
Deriveds
Translations (4)
pl bezsamochodowy (carless) · de autolos (carless) · tr arabasız (carless) · is bíllaus (carless)