Meanings
- not comparableNot having any children.
I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?
1899 January 7 – May 5, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in When the Sleeper Wakes, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, published 1899, →OCLC1 more example
“He’s a 70-year-old childless warmonger and he has no stake in the future of this country,” Dans said. “He is the very reason that MAGA started in the first place, and we only have to look at 2016 when he was a vehement Trump hater. A leopard doesn’t change its spots.”
2025 July 28, Steve Contorno, quoting Paul Dans, “Project 2025 architect Paul Dans to challenge Lindsey Graham for Senate in South Carolina”, in CNNSynonyms: babyless, childrenless, kidless, offspringless
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot having any children.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivewithout offspring
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishchildles
- Englishchildless
From Middle English childles; equivalent to child + -less.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἄτεκνος, ἄπαις
- ἄτεκνος (áteknos)not having any children — see also child-free
- ἄπαις (ápais)not having any children — see also child-free
Arabic أَبْتَر
- أَبْتَر (ʔabtar)not having any children — see also child-free
Bulgarian безде́тен
- безде́тен (bezdéten)not having any children — see also child-free
Catalan sense fills
- sense fillsnot having any children — see also child-free
Chinese Mandarin 沒有兒女的 /没有儿女的, 無子女的 /无子女的
- 沒有兒女的 /没有儿女的 (méiyǒu érnǚ de)not having any children — see also child-free
- 無子女的 /无子女的 (wúzǐnǚ de)not having any children — see also child-free
- 無兒無女的 /无儿无女的 (wú'érwúnǚ de)not having any children — see also child-free
Czech bezdětný
- bezdětnýnot having any children — see also child-free
Danish barnløs
- barnløsnot having any children — see also child-free
Dutch kinderloos
- kinderloosnot having any children — see also child-free
Esperanto seninfana
- seninfananot having any children — see also child-free
Finnish lapseton
- lapsetonnot having any children — see also child-free
French sans enfants
- sans enfantsnot having any children — see also child-free
German kinderlos
- kinderlosnot having any children — see also child-free
Hindi संतानहीन
- संतानहीन (santānhīn)not having any children — see also child-free
Hungarian gyermektelen
- gyermektelennot having any children — see also child-free
Icelandic barnlaus
- barnlausnot having any children — see also child-free
Irish gan chlann, gan chúram
- gan chlannnot having any children — see also child-free
- gan chúramnot having any children — see also child-free
- gan leanbhnot having any children — see also child-free
Japanese 子無し
- 子無し (konashi)not having any children — see also child-free
Korean 자녀가 없다, 자녀가 없는
- 자녀가 없다 (janyeo-ga eopda)not having any children — see also child-free
- 자녀가 없는 (janyeo-ga eomneun)not having any children — see also child-free
- 아이가 없다 (ai-ga eopda)not having any children — see also child-free
- 아이가 없는 (ai-ga eomneun)not having any children — see also child-free
Lithuanian bevaikis
- bevaikisnot having any children — see also child-free
Māori huatea, huamutu
- huateanot having any children — see also child-free
- huamutunot having any children — see also child-free
Norwegian Bokmål barnløs, barnlaus
- barnløsnot having any children — see also child-free
- barnlausnot having any children — see also child-free
Polish bezdzietny, bezpotomny
- bezdzietnynot having any children — see also child-free
- bezpotomnynot having any children — see also child-free
Portuguese sem filhos
- sem filhosnot having any children — see also child-free
Russian безде́тный
- безде́тный (bezdétnyj)not having any children — see also child-free
Slovak bezdetný
- bezdetnýnot having any children — see also child-free
Spanish sin hijos
- sin hijosnot having any children — see also child-free
Swahili gumba
- gumbanot having any children — see also child-free
Swedish barnlös
- barnlösnot having any children — see also child-free
Turkish çocuksuz
- çocuksuznot having any children — see also child-free
Ukrainian безді́тний
- безді́тний (bezdítnyj)not having any children — see also child-free
Cite this entry
childless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/childless
“childless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/childless. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “childless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/childless.
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