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The Collaborative International Dictionary
dateless

dateless \date"less\, a.

  1. Without date; having no fixed time.

  2. not having a social companion for an occasion; as, to be dateless for the prom.

Wiktionary
dateless

Etymology 1 a. 1 Out of one's head; deranged. 2 (context British dialect slang English) thick-headed Etymology 2

a. 1 Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated. 2 Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover. 3 timeless; immortal 4 Without a start; immemorial 5 (context archaic English) Without an end; endless

WordNet
dateless
  1. adj. having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth" [syn: endless, sempiternal]

  2. of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; "dateless customs"

  3. not bearing a date; "a dateless letter" [syn: undated]

  4. unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty" [syn: timeless]

Usage examples of "dateless".

She had the sudden urge to snap his bow in two and she had a crazy urge to file discrimination charges with the Cupid EEOC for leaving her dateless for so long.

She zipped it up defiantly, brushed out her hair so that it curled on her neck, dug her feet into slippers, caught up the dark grey flannel coat she had bought years ago and which was happily dateless and ran downstairs.

A fine thing incomparably said instantly becomes familiar, and has henceforth a sort of dateless excellence.

It felt crisp in my hands, even after lying hidden all those dateless winters with the furnace clanking off and on and sending heat through the pipes and baking and rebaking it.

The bespeckled, pimply-faced, overweight, underweight, dateless, womanless, goofiest of the goofy, were the undisputed, unchallenged kings of the entire freaking Valley!

We have hardly turned the page ere denunciations of Catherine and Frederick William give place to prayerful invocations of the Supreme Being, which are in their turn the prelude of a long and beautiful contemplative passage: "In the prim'val age, a dateless while," etc.