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tieless

tieless

3.5
Not wearing a necktie, for example a shirt with an open collar
  • adjective
  • /ˈtaɪləs/
translation icon : sin corbata
  • They were tieless, dressed in soiled double-knit outfits, their shirt collars out over their jacket lapels in the style of Israeli Knesset members.

Examples

  • Drummond is tieless.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Eugene Kittridge is fortyish, but seems permanently stuck in the Nixon era—horn-rimmed glasses, short haircut, and would rather be caught dead than tieless.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • He arrived at the party tieless, wearing a crisp white shirt and tailored trousers.

  • At the informal gathering, she felt comfortable being tieless and opting for a relaxed outfit.

  • Many attendees were tieless, showing that the event embraced a more casual dress code.

Synonyms

open-collared
vstieless
1 5.1

A shirt with the top button undone at the neck

focuses on having no neck decoration rather than collar fastening

Antonyms

tied
1.0

Fastened with string or rope

Surface Forms

tieless positive

Morphology

tieless = tie (transparent) = tie + less

Direct, productive formation from 'tie' + '-less' meaning 'without a tie' and thus easily inferable by learners who know 'tie' and '-less'.

Etymology

Tieless comes from the parts tie, a piece of cloth worn at the neck, and -less ('without'). So, to be tieless is simply to be 'without a necktie' or not fastened or decorated with a ribbon.