mateless

English

Etymology

From mate +‎ -less.

Adjective

mateless (not comparable)

1. Without a mate.
   • 1848, [William] Wilkie Collins, Memoirs of the Life of William Collins, Esq., R. A., volume I, London: Longman, […] , page 227:

     That he did not glory, however, in his mateless solitude, but rather, like a true knight, longed for the first opportunity pour faire le gallant, vis-à-vis de sa maitresse, is pleasantly testified in the letter that is now subjoined.

Derived terms

• matelessness

Anagrams

• Malteses, meatless, tameless, teamless