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English
Etymology
From object + -less.
Adjective
objectless (not comparable)
- Without a purpose.
1843, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - April 1843:You cannot imagine, dearest, how dreary is this idle objectless life to me; with nothing to employ me--not even correspondence.
1893, Annie Besant, Annie Besant:You assume, I think quite gratuitously, that God condemns the major part of His children to objectless future suffering.
1910, Basil King, The Wild Olive:For the moment it was a blind, objectless passion, directed against nothing and no one in particular.
- (grammar) Without a grammatical object.
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