passlessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

pass +‎ -less

発音

• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpæsləs/

形容詞

passless (not comparable)

1. Offering no way to pass; impassable.
   • 1656, Abraham Cowley, The Plagues of Egypt

     Behold what passless rocks on either hand

2. Without a pass (authorization document).
   • 1987, Michael Dingake, My Fight Against Apartheid (page 57)

     Demonstrators were instructed to leave their passes at their homes and present themselves passless at police stations.