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bridgeless

bridgeless

1 5.3
A road or place that has no bridge to cross a river
  • adjective
  • /ˈbrɪdʒləs/
: sin puente
  • Driving along the rural road, we encountered a bridgeless river with no way to get across.
  • a bridgeless stream

Examples

  • "He helps wayfarers across bridgeless waters.

    The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)

  • While the engineers worked, advance elements of the 124th continued to probe northward along the Sayre Highway, crossing another three bridgeless ravines and again outdistancing the artillery.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Onstage, under that real high sound pressure for which there is just no substitute, with all the secondary reverb scrabbling across the floors and up the walls, you would get this weirdly delicate counterpoint: this pretty, bridgeless thing.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The hikers carefully navigated the bridgeless creek, searching for a safe way to cross.

  • The villagers had to find alternative routes since the only path to town involved crossing a bridgeless stream.

Synonyms

unbridged
vsbridgeless
1 7.2

Not connected to the other side by a bridge

expresses the same idea but uses a different form of the word

Surface Forms

bridgeless positive

Morphology

bridgeless = bridge (transparent) = bridge + less

The word 'bridgeless' is transparently derived from 'bridge' with the suffix '-less' indicating absence.

Etymology

The word bridgeless comes from bridge and the ending -less, which means 'without'. So bridgeless means 'without a bridge', and we use it for roads or places that have no bridge and are hard to cross.