childless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Middle English childles; equivalent to child + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not having any children.
I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?
1899 January 7 – May 5, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in When the Sleeper Wakes, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1899, →OCLC:“He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said. “He is the very reason that MAGA started in the first place, and we only have to look at 2016 when he was a vehement Trump hater. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.”
2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNN:
Coordinates
Deriveds
Synonyms
babyless · kidless · childrenless · offspringless
Translations (61)
ko 아이가 없는 (not having any children — see also child-free) · kmr bêzarok (not having any children — see also child-free) · cmn 無兒無女的 /无儿无女的 (not having any children — see also child-free) · nn barnlaus (not having any children — see also child-free) · sh бѐздетан (not having any children — see also child-free) · pt sem filhos (not having any children — see also child-free) · ga gan chlann (not having any children — see also child-free) · ga gan chúram (not having any children — see also child-free) · mhr йочадыме (not having any children — see also child-free) · grc ἄτεκνος (not having any children — see also child-free) · sh бѐздјетан (not having any children — see also child-free) · mi huamutu (not having any children — see also child-free) · cs bezdětný (not having any children — see also child-free) · hi संतानहीन (not having any children — see also child-free) · da barnløs (not having any children — see also child-free) · ru безде́тный (not having any children — see also child-free) · rsk безчадни (not having any children — see also child-free) · sh bèzdetan (not having any children — see also child-free) · sv barnlös (not having any children — see also child-free) · tr çocuksuz (not having any children — see also child-free) · lt bevaikis (not having any children — see also child-free) · nl kinderloos (not having any children — see also child-free) · hu gyermektelen (not having any children — see also child-free) · es sin hijos (not having any children — see also child-free) · is barnlaus (not having any children — see also child-free) · az oğul-uşaqsız (not having any children — see also child-free) · fi lapseton (not having any children — see also child-free) · bg безде́тен (not having any children — see also child-free) · enm barnles (not having any children — see also child-free) · sk bezdetný (not having any children — see also child-free) · mi huatea (not having any children — see also child-free) · ia sin infantes (not having any children — see also child-free) · pl bezpotomny (not having any children — see also child-free) · fr sans enfants (not having any children — see also child-free) · sh bèzdjetan (not having any children — see also child-free) · ga gan leanbh (not having any children — see also child-free) · mk бездетен (not having any children — see also child-free) · ko 아이가 없다 (not having any children — see also child-free) · de kinderlos (not having any children — see also child-free) · sw gumba (not having any children — see also child-free) · cmn 無子女的 /无子女的 (not having any children — see also child-free) · nb barnløs (not having any children — see also child-free) · ca sense fills (not having any children — see also child-free) · cmn 沒有兒女的 /没有儿女的 (not having any children — see also child-free) · uk безді́тний (not having any children — see also child-free) · be бяздзе́тны (not having any children — see also child-free) · nb barnlaus (not having any children — see also child-free) · got 𐌿𐌽𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍃 (not having any children — see also child-free) · sl brez otrok (not having any children — see also child-free) · grc ἄπαις (not having any children — see also child-free) · ang bearnlēas (not having any children — see also child-free) · ko 자녀가 없는 (not having any children — see also child-free) · ko 자녀가 없다 (not having any children — see also child-free) · eo seninfana (not having any children — see also child-free) · az övladsız (not having any children — see also child-free) · ja 子無し (not having any children — see also child-free) · az sonsuz (not having any children — see also child-free) · gl sen fillos (not having any children — see also child-free) · ar أَبْتَر (not having any children — see also child-free) · pl bezdzietny (not having any children — see also child-free) · enm childles (not having any children — see also child-free)