carless

See also: Carless

English

Etymology

From car +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ləs

Adjective

carless (not comparable)

1. Without a car.
   • 1980 December 20, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “A Personal Remembrance Of The Saints”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 13:

     Getting back could be harder; something about one-way streets and disappearing exits and maybe late hours and a drink or two. Going there carless was a different story, you didn't have to worry about staying oriented or parking then; but there was either the subway or a ride home to negotiate.

   • 2002, Anne M Findlay, Leigh Sparks, The Environments for Retailing‎, →ISBN, page 153:

     Forty five per cent of carless households had a retired head […]

   • 2019 September 22, Vanessa Swales, “A Motorcade on Mackinac Island? Pence’s Visit Breaks a Long Tradition”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 September 2019:

     Mr. Pence, the first sitting vice president to visit Mackinac Island, is apparently also the first government official to break with the island’s carless tradition.

Derived terms

• carlessness

Translations

carless

Icelandic: bíllaus Polish: bezsamochodowy Turkish: arabasız (tr)

Anagrams

• sarcels, Les Arcs, classer, scleras, reclass, sarcles, Caslers, scalers