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engineless

engineless

5.8
Not having an engine or motor
  • adjective
  • /ˈɛn.dʒɪn.ləs/
translation icon : sin motor
  • He decided to restore the engineless vehicle, dreaming of bringing it back to life one day.

Examples

  • The old boat lay abandoned at the dock, completely engineless and covered in weeds.

  • The car on the shoulder was a rusting, engineless truck.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • After years of use, the engineless lawnmower was finally put out to pasture behind the shed.

Synonyms

motorless
vsengineless
5.3

Not having an engine, for example a toy moved by hand

uses the equivalent term referring to absence of an engine

How Powered

engined
1 5.6
motorized
  • US
1 3.8
engineless
5.8

Surface Forms

engineless positive

Morphology

engineless = engine (transparent) = engine + less

Formed by the noun 'engine' + the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so the meaning 'without an engine' is directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

Engineless is made of engine and the ending -less, where -less means 'without', just like in hopeless. So engineless means 'without an engine', for example a glider or a boat that has no motor.