Adjective: sackless
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sackless |
| Superlative | most sackless |
Sample Sentences
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The first act consisted of dancing, capering, and tumbling, by about twenty men, enveloped in sacks […] At length, at a given signal by the manager, the whole troop of actors rushed to the spot; they were then sackless, but their features were effectually concealed by masks reaching to the bosom. [1830, The Spirit of the English Magazines, page 200:]
Adjectives inflected like sackless
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English sack
3. Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
5. Proto-Germanic *leusaną
6. Proto-Germanic *lausaz
7. Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *-laus
9. Old English -lēas
10. Middle English -les
11. English -less
12. English sackless
13. From sack + -less.
Verbs referencing "sackless"
Swedish Adjectives
saklös.