childless

1. 1.

   without offspring

   “in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen”

   Similarunfruitful

Other forms of childless

comparative

childlesser·

superlative

childlessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about childless

What does childless mean?

childless means "without offspring".

How many syllables are in childless?

childless has 2 syllables: child-less. The stress falls on "child". In IPA it is /ˈtʃaɪldləs/.

Is childless a common word?

childless is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.