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verseless en · ADJ

Etymology

From verse + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without poetry.
    • Yet in spite of today's boom in books and libraries, some children still live in a verseless world. 1978, Parents and Children, volumes 16-18, page 25:
  2. (not-comparable) Not divided into verses.
    • After making several changes (such as shifting the time signature from 3/4 to 4/4, changing “will” to “shall,” and dropping the old verses, making it a verseless song that was all chorus with a number of new lines to provide variety), […] 2013, Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, volume 1, page 695: