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Webster 1913 Edition


Objectless

Ob′ject-less

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Adj.
Having no object; purposeless.

Definition 2024


objectless

objectless

English

Adjective

objectless (not comparable)

  1. 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.
  2. (grammar) Without a grammatical object.