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What (who) is -less - definition
PARTICLE
-less
-less
-less is added to nouns in order to form adjectives that indicate that someone or something does not have the thing that the noun refers to.
...drink and talk and meaningless laughter...
He is not as friendless as he appeared to be.
SUFFIX
-less
¦ suffix forming adjectives and adverbs:
1. (from nouns) not having; free from: flavourless.
2. (from verbs) not affected by or not carrying out the action of the verb: tireless.
Derivatives
-lessly suffix.
-lessness suffix.
Origin
OE -leas, from leas 'devoid of'.
-less
·- A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless.
Wikipedia
Privative
A privative, named from Latin privare, "to deprive", is a particle that negates or inverts the value of the stem of the word. In Indo-European languages many privatives are prefixes; but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements.
Examples of use of -less
1. There is less clean water, less sewage control, less gas, less petrol, less power.
2. But Venus Williams was less terrible, less wild, less devastating.
3. "The media projected us as less intelligent than we were, less hardworking, less patriotic, more volatile, less worthy.
4. "Less threatening, because less capable," agreed Rep.
5. The former is faster, younger, less stodgy, less arrogant and less beholden to tradition.