futureless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English future 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 futureless From future + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a future.
C. forgot the degradation of her return to school. I delighted in writing nothing, not a single word. We were well. We could live forever, futureless, at peace with one another.
1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 244:
- (not-comparable, of a language) That has no future tense.
Deriveds
Translations (2)
fi vailla tulevaisuutta (without future) · fi futuuriton (linguistics: that has no future tense)