datelessとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Unknown. Perhaps derived from 古期英語 þeatless (“thoughtless', "without plan”). See also deedless.

形容詞

dateless (comparative more dateless, superlative most dateless)

1. Out of one's head; deranged.
   • 1848, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Mary Barton, page 98:

     Poor soul, she's gone dateless, I think, with care, and watching, and overmuch trouble; and who can wonder?

   • 1863, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers‎^[1], page 135:

     and he were put in York prison and tried and hung – hung! Charley! – kind father was hung on a gallows and mother lost sense and grew silly in grief and we were like to be turned on t' wide world and poor mother dateless

   • 1881, Edwin Waugh, “The Dead Man's Dinner”, in Tufts of heather, page 307:

     An' they geet howd on her, and carried her into Sally Grimshaw's, an' laid her upo' th' couch cheer, as dateless as a stone !

2. (Britain, dialect, slang) thick-headed

   They're so dateless that Burger King will not offer them a job.

   • 1997, Peter O'Toole, Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice‎^[2], →ISBN, page 281:

     Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing.

   • 1976, Fred Beake, Legends from Mammon‎^[3], page 8:

     You dateless fool, you stupid ass, clamped to
     This crag for all eternity

   • 2001, August 4, “Lynne Walker”, in Classical: Musical portrait of the artist as a young man‎^[4]:

     "You dateless article," stormed his father, leaving Bennett to realise in his laconic way that he was, and probably always would be, a disappointment to Dad.

語源 2

Coined between 1585 and 1595 from date +‎ -less^[1][2]

形容詞

dateless (not comparable)

1. Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.
2. Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.

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   It is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night.

3. Timeless; immortal
   • 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, OCLC 260112239:

     the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity

4. Without a start; immemorial
5. (archaic) Without an end; endless
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet XXX”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634:

     Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
     For precious friends hid in death's dateless night

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