dateless
/'deitlis/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Not having a date; undated: Refers to something, typically a document, letter, or event, that does not have a specific date recorded on it.
- Timeless; eternal; not affected by the passage of time: Describes something that seems to exist outside of time, remaining unchanged, relevant, or beautiful across ages.
- Having no known beginning or end; seemingly endless: Used to describe natural phenomena or abstract concepts that appear to be perpetual.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The archivist found a dateless manuscript in the collection. (The archivist found an undated manuscript in the collection.)
- Shakespeare's plays have a dateless quality that continues to resonate. (Shakespeare's plays have a timeless quality that continues to resonate.)
- The dateless rhythm of the ocean waves is calming. (The endless rhythm of the ocean waves is calming.)
Advanced Usage
- In a figurative or poetic sense: Often used to emphasize the eternal or classic nature of an idea, work of art, or feeling.
- Their love felt dateless, as if it had always existed. (Their love felt eternal, as if it had always existed.)
Variants and Related Words
- Dated (adj.): Marked with a date; belonging to a specific past period and often seeming old-fashioned.
- His views on the subject are rather dated. (His views on the subject are rather old-fashioned.)
- Timeless (adj.): Not affected by the passage of time; eternal. (This is a close synonym for one meaning of "dateless".)
Synonyms
- Undated: Not marked with a date.
- Timeless: Eternal, ageless, perennial.
- Endless: Infinite, perpetual, sempiternal.
Antonyms
- Dated: Having a date; old-fashioned.
- Ephemeral: Lasting for a very short time.
- Temporal: Relating to time as opposed to eternity.
Related Idioms or Phrases
- A dateless bargain: (Archaic) An agreement or appointment for a meeting that is never to be kept; an engagement for an indefinite time.
- He promised to help, but it turned out to be a dateless bargain. (He promised to help, but it turned out to be a promise he never intended to keep at a specific time.)
Adjective
- unaffected by time
- few characters are so dateless as Hamlet
- Helen's timeless beauty
- not bearing a date
- a dateless letter
- of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date
- dateless customs
- having no known beginning and presumably no end
- the dateless rise and fall of the tides
- time is endless
- sempiternal truth