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wheelless

wheelless

5.2
Not having wheels and needing to be carried or slid
  • adjective
translation icon : sin ruedas

Examples

  • Seated on the looted, wheelless car, playing with a small doll.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The sun is up, and it's near seven when we are allowed inside the fence to wait in a shabby dirt yard with two wheelless trucks for sculpture and bedraggled cocks for company.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The children played with a wheelless toy car, pushing it along the floor.

  • After the storm, we found a wheelless trailer abandoned in the field.

  • He noticed a wheelless chair in the corner of the room, perfect for decoration.

Antonyms

wheeled
1 2.5

Having round parts that let it roll like a car or trolley

How Wheeled

four-wheeled
1 3.2
two-wheeled
1 2.8
unicycle
8 6.0
wheelless
5.2

Surface Forms

wheelless positive

Morphology

wheelless = wheel (transparent) = wheel + less

Clear and regular formation: 'wheel' + '-less' meaning 'without wheels', easily inferable by learners.

Etymology

The word wheelless is made from wheel, the round part that rolls, and the ending -less, which means 'without'. So wheelless literally means 'without wheels', which is why we use it for sleds, carts, or chariots that are slid or carried rather than rolled.