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collarless

collarless

1 3.5
A piece of clothing with no collar
  • adjective
  • /ˈkɒlərləs/
translation icon : sin cuello
  • Several people had looked hard at his rough wool pants and coat, his collarless shirt.
  • collarless shirt
  • collarless jacket

Examples

  • In the summer, she prefers wearing a light, collarless dress that keeps her cool.

  • Like Randolph, he was wearing business clothes: a collarless waist-length tunic and matching slacks.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Where's my white collarless shirt?

  • For weather protection, he was wearing a houndstooth jacket and a collarless shirt.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • He wore black slacks and a loose, collarless shirt that was unbuttoned.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Dunny sits a little apart from the women, dressed in shabby khaki pants and a collarless shirt.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • A frail-looking elderly Chinese man sporting bifocals and a starched white collarless shirt looked up and rose from one of the four desks when the door opened.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Many of them wore knit sweaters of undyed wool; others wore collarless, long-sleeved shirts of the same ivory color.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • In accordance with that belief, Inman wore a loosely constructed tweed jacket, a collarless shirt, and a soft slouch hat, the brim of which drooped to his brow.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • He chose a collarless shirt for the party to achieve a more relaxed look.

Synonyms

uncollared
vscollarless
5.9

Not wearing a band around the neck, often about a dog or cat

describes garments rather than animals in everyday usage

Antonyms

2 3.6

Having a band of cloth or leather around the neck, for example on a shirt

How Collared

button-down
9 3.1
collarless
1 3.5

Surface Forms

collarless positive

Morphology

collarless = collar (transparent) = collar + less

The adjective is formed by the regular negative suffix '-less' on the noun 'collar', yielding 'without a collar', which is directly derivable.

Etymology

Collarless combines collar and the ending -less, where -less means 'without' and is the same ending you see in hopeless or careless. So collarless means 'without a collar', like a shirt with no neck band.