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choiceless

choiceless

1 6.9
Having no option to choose
  • adjective
  • /ˈtʃɔɪsləs/
translation icon : sin opciones
  • During the emergency, the families faced choiceless choices about evacuating or staying at home.
  • a choiceless choice

And what happened is you, you call it choiceless awareness is what you think you were tapping into.

Examples

  • Now choiceless, consumers must continue their interactions with the company as a non-patient, a non-consumer.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Both religion and politics refuse to accept a choiceless world.

    Academic text (2001)
  • While each individual had the final choice of whether to marry or not, for many women, it was a choiceless choice.

    Academic text (1993)
  • How did this imbalance of power force the Jews into having to make "choiceless choices"?

    Academic text (1996)
  • Claude tried to make the choiceless choices of the ruined dreamer.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Ultimately, this is a story of survival, but survival in a world filled with what Langer calls "choiceless choices, where crucial decisions did not reflect options between life and death but between one form of abnormal response and another, both imposed by a situation that was in no way of the victim's own choosing" (Langer 1982, 72).

    Academic text (1996)
  • In a crisis, sometimes you find yourself in a choiceless situation where any option feels wrong.

  • The students were left with a choiceless decision when their school announced the mandatory uniform policy.

Synonyms

fresh out of options
vschoiceless
  • Informal
1 5.6

No other choices remain

is the single word form expressing the same lack of choices

Antonyms

1.0

One thing you pick or the act of picking from several things

2.2

A choice between two or more things

How Free

autonomous
51 6.3
free
1.0
limited
393 2.5
choiceless
1 6.9

Surface Forms

choiceless positive

Morphology

choiceless = choice (transparent) = choice + less

Formed by 'choice' + '-less' meaning 'without choice', which directly expresses the defined meaning.

Etymology

Choiceless is made from choice ('a choice' or 'an option') and the ending -less ('without'), so it literally means 'without choice'. That's why someone who is choiceless has no alternative or option.