Meanings
carless1
- not comparableWithout a car.
Forty five per cent of carless households had a retired head […]
2002, Anne M Findlay, Leigh Sparks, The Environments for Retailing, →ISBN, page 1532 more examples
Getting back could be harder; something about one-way streets and disappearing exits and maybe late hours and a drink or two. Going there carless was a different story, you didn't have to worry about staying oriented or parking then; but there was either the subway or a ride home to negotiate.
1980 December 20, Andrea F. Loewenstein, “A Personal Remembrance Of The Saints”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 13Mr. Pence, the first sitting vice president to visit Mackinac Island, is apparently also the first government official to break with the island’s carless tradition.
2019 September 22, Vanessa Swales, “A Motorcade on Mackinac Island? Pence’s Visit Breaks a Long Tradition”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2019
Carless2
- A surname.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱers-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥sós
- Proto-Celtic*karros
- Gaulish*karros
- Latincarrus
- Anglo-Normancarre
- Middle Englishcarre
- Englishcar
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishcarless
Translations
German autolos
- autoloscarless
Icelandic bíllaus
- bíllauscarless
Polish bezsamochodowy
- bezsamochodowycarless
Turkish arabasız
- arabasızcarless
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with carless
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Cite this entry
carless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carless
“carless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carless. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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