boatless

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Not having a boat to use

adjective
/ˈboʊtləs/

: sin barco

The boatless tourists watched enviously as others sailed across the lake.
boatless angler

Examples

The lake was boatless after the storm.
She felt boatless and left out when her friends went fishing on the river.
After selling his canoe, he was completely boatless for the summer.
Being boatless limits our fishing opportunities.
To get there, boatless visitors can book one of the many dive and snorkel tours that make daily trips to the reef.
The "north" or Port Isabel jetty at the tip of Padre Island is easily accessible by boatless anglers.
Both the South Jetty (at the east end of Galveston Island) and the North Jetty (tied to the tip of Bolivar Peninsula) are accessible to boatless anglers.

Surface Forms

boatless positive

Morphology

boatless = boat (transparent) = boat + less

A clear, productive combination of the noun 'boat' with the adjectival suffix '-less' meaning 'without a boat'.

Etymology

The word boatless is made from boat and -less, where -less means 'without', so it simply means 'without a boat'. You can see the same -less in common words like hopeless and homeless, which helps you remember that boatless means 'without a boat'.