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skyscraperless en · ADJ

Etymology

From skyscraper + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a skyscraper or skyscrapers.
    • There were radio towers ahead of us and high-tension lines picking up speed as they raced across the skyscraperless sky. 2006, Robert Sullivan, The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of New York City:
    • Best view of skyscraper-less Washington. 2013, Not For Tourists Guide to Washington DC 2014:
    • Change is coming faster and faster in our technology, so there isn't a chance in the world that our cities of 1999 will be any more like today's cities than were the autoless, subwayless, skyscraperless, air conditioning-less almost elevatorless cities of 1899. 1970, Henry George News, volume 33, page 67: