Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without spirit, soul, or life.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Without life or spirit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without spirit, soul, or life; dead.
  • adjective Without a ghost.

Etymologies

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From Middle English *gostles, from Old English gāstlēas ("lifeless, dead"), equivalent to ghost +‎ -less. Cognate with Dutch geestloos, German geistlos.

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Examples

  • I've been asked repeatedly whether there were any ghosts, and for better or worse, there weren't (frankly, I prefer my castles ghostless), but you can't help but contemplate the lives of those who were climbing the same steps three, four or five hundred years ago.

    Megan Smolenyak: Roots Travel in Ireland 2010

  • I've been asked repeatedly whether there were any ghosts, and for better or worse, there weren't (frankly, I prefer my castles ghostless), but you can't help but contemplate the lives of those who were climbing the same steps three, four or five hundred years ago.

    Megan Smolenyak: Roots Travel in Ireland 2010

  • She treated the schoolmaster's dream as vapour, and the old days as dead and ghostless.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • She treated the schoolmaster's dream as vapour, and the old days as dead and ghostless.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • She treated the schoolmaster's dream as vapour, and the old days as dead and ghostless.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • The theoretical astronomer posits a planet populated by ghosts posited by another theoretical astronomer on another distant, ghostless planet, and wonders if he, the first theoretical astronomer, is on this planet now.

    Metamorphosism 2009

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