queenless en · ADJ
Etymology
From queen + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without a queen.
Kramnik is perhaps the greatest exponent of heavyweight queenless middlegames in the history of chess.
2012, Neil McDonald, Chess Success: Planning After the Opening, page 55:We have yet to identify every factor involved, but one variable is whether the nest contains a queen ant (queenright) or is queenless.
2012, Andrew Pullin, Ecology and Conservation of Butterflies:
Antonyms
queenright (antonym(s) of “of colonies of ants, bees, etc.”)
Translations (1)
el αβασίλευτος (without a queen)