Meanings
- not comparableWithout an elevator.
Living at the top of an elevatorless building meant trudging up twelve flights of stairs every day.
1 more example
Change is coming faster and faster in our technology, so there isn't a chance in the world that our cities of 1999 will be any more like today's cities than were the autoless, subwayless, skyscraperless, air conditioning-less almost elevatorless cities of 1899.
1970, Henry George News, volume 33, page 67
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Italic*eks
- Latinex
- Latinex-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁lengʷʰ-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁léngʰus
- Proto-Italic*breɣʷisinflu.
- Proto-Italic*leɣʷis
- Latinlevis
- Latinlevō
- Latinēlevō
- Latinēlevātus
- Middle Englishelevat
- Middle Englishelevaten
- Englishelevate
- Englishelevator
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishelevatorless
From elevator + -less.
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elevatorless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elevatorless
“elevatorless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elevatorless. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “elevatorless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elevatorless.
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