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dateless

dateless

3 7.1
Not showing its age and seeming to fit any time
  • adjective
  • /ˈdeɪtləs/
translation icon : atemporal
  • The concept of true love is often seen as dateless, untouched by the passage of time.
  • a dateless bargain
  • a dateless night

Examples

  • The artist's work evokes a dateless beauty that resonates with every generation.

  • Many ancient structures possess a dateless quality, standing firm against the erosion of years.

  • - All your dateless Saturdays.

  • You're gonna end up in an early grave, alone, having a dateless life, never taking a chance on love.

  • It begins in the dateless past, before angels or atoms.

    Blog text (12)
  • You know, dateless wonders.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • O you, the doors to breath... ...seal with a righteous kiss... ...a dateless bargain... ...to engrossing death.

  • She will spend the next year in a phoneless, dateless, Amish existence.

  • Countless times he's left me dateless for openings at the Whitney, Broadway shows, and other things that require planning.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Cam had the kind of chiseled features that inspired countless bad verses on dateless Saturday nights, all devoted to the proposition that the gods practiced sculpture on Monument Valley and then made a human male.

    Fiction book (2001)

Synonyms

endless
vsdateless
350 2.5

Continuing for a very long time and not stopping

means unaffected by time rather than merely seeming to continue a long time
timeless
vsdateless
70 4.6

Stays beautiful or important even as years pass

is more general and means unaffected by time rather than tied to fashion
ageless
vsdateless
5 5.7

Continuing to be important or true for a very long time

is about existing outside time rather than only looking unchanged
atemporal
vsdateless
1 9.9

Not connected to time or to when things happen

applies to things that endure through time rather than being outside time
transtemporal
vsdateless
  • Specialized
9.9

Not changed by time and connecting past, present, and future

lasts forever through time rather than existing outside time
intemporal
vsdateless
  • Formal
9.9

Not changed by time so it stays true in any era

focuses on lasting across time rather than being outside chronological order
nontemporal
vsdateless
  • Specialized
7.7

Not related to time

means something lasts forever rather than merely not involving time
sempiternal
vsdateless
  • Literature
9.9

Lasting forever with no known beginning or end

means being unaffected by time rather than only long unending duration

Antonyms

96 7.0

About time or not lasting forever

How Timeless

dateless
3 7.1
permanent
650 3.2
long-lasting
27 3.7
temporary
557 3.0

Surface Forms

dateless positive

Morphology

dateless = date (semi-transparent) = date + less

Formed from 'date' + '-less' (literally 'without a date') but extended metaphorically to mean 'timeless' or 'eternal', requiring an extra inferential step.

Etymology

Dateless is made from date ('a day' or a time) and -less ('without'), so when we call a story or style dateless it is 'without a date' in the sense that it is not tied to one time and feels timeless or eternal.