wirelessless

English

Etymology

wireless +‎ -less

Adjective

wirelessless (not comparable)

  1. (UK, humorous) Without a radio set.
    • 2015, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers:
      I've been stranded, utterly abandoned, left wireless—rather, wirelessless.
    • Quoted in: 2020, Carol Z. Rothkopf, Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 1919–1967
      We are wirelessless, or probably we should have enjoyed de la Mare's aperçu of Keats tonight.
    • 2022, William J. Locke, Ancestor Jorico:
      She also reflected that a jumpy, wool-gathering wireless operator might cause less confusion ashore. But the fact remained that the yacht was wirelessless.
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