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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

languageless en · ADJ

Etymology

From language + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without language.
    • But in practice, we are not born into any particular language at all: all babies are languageless at the start of life. 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 61:
    • No languageless human society has ever been discovered on the earth. 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 2:

Deriveds

languagelessness