childless
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈtʃaɪldləs/
:
sin hijos
- - I'm childless by choice, bro.
- childless woman
- childless couples
- childless wife
I'm a middle-aged, childless, husbandless woman.
- I'm a middle-aged, childless, husbandless woman.
- So those two I would accept from the question because they're not childless.
- There are no childless adults using TANF or what most people call welfare, the Medicaid program.
- And she signed it like childless cat mom or something like that.
- That doesn't even start with the childless cat ladies and that reproductive rights.
- Was JD Vance right about childless cat ladies?
- They didn't ask it exactly, but yeah, I mean, childless people do report various difficulties arising arising from childlessness.
Examples
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Many childless couples choose to travel more often than those with children.
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Mr. and Mrs. Holmstrom were a childless couple in their mid-forties.
Fiction book (1992) -
A childless couple is driving past.
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The four women who were childless while attending graduate school remain childless today.
Academic text (1995) -
Today, a little over one in five women in their early forties are childless.
Academic text (2005) -
I'm a middle-aged, childless, husbandless woman.
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Lisa was jobless, Karen was childless, and perhaps they envied one another a little.
Fiction book (1994) -
You're childless and alone.
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Of those women listed, 7.2 percent were childless, indicating a high incidence of sterility.
Academic text (1991) -
Characteristically, the Box Woman is childless; her sexual encounters with 570 partners have not resulted in maternity.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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5.7
Not having children by choice
Has no children to leave money or property to
Having no children or grandchildren
Antonyms
How Prolific
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Childless is made from child and less, where less means 'without', as in fearless meaning 'without fear'. So childless simply means 'without children'.