carless
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- adjective
- /ˈkɑːrləs/
- The neighborhood coffee shops and carless characters show viewers a "walkable" city.
Examples
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I've spent the past two years carless and walked pretty much everywhere.
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When they left the house, they took my keys with them, thereby trapping me there, carless, afraid to leave the house because they could then lock me out of it if I left.
Blog text (22) -
Being newly carless, I was a frequent user of the bus system.
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Well, considering I'm homeless and broke and carless... and I'm not lookin' my best, I think I'll ride with you.
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Firstly, transit is not just about reducing emissions; there are also significant social justice and quality of life issues to be considered, given that being carless in America is like second-class citizenship.
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Our family has credibility points for being carless and entirely bike, walking, and occasional bus. I don't want to group with the intense cycling crowd, nor the Cycling.
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It was an ominous scene, almost preternatural in its starkness, not at all the kind of place one would want to be caught carless, at dusk or at dawn.
Fiction book (1999) -
My SO is carless at the moment (it was stolen and destroyed in the ensuing police chase) and works in a suburb of Detroit that you simply can't reach by bus with anything less than a Herculean effort.
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People who don't or can't live your perfect life, carless and shoehorned into a 200-unit condo building on top of the metro aren't kids who need to be told to eat their veggies.
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Being carless has made me more aware of my local community and its resources.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Carless is made of car and -less, where -less means 'without'. So Carless simply means 'without a car', like someone who walks, cycles, or uses public transport instead of driving.