dateless

1. 1.

   having no known beginning and presumably no end

   “the dateless rise and fall of the tides”

   “time is endless”

   “sempiternal truth”

   Synonymsendlesssempiternal

   Similarinfinite
2. 2.

   of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date

   “dateless customs”

   Similarundatable
3. 3.

   not bearing a date

   “a dateless letter”

   Synonymsundated

   Similarundatable
4. 4.

   unaffected by time

   “few characters are so dateless as Hamlet”

   “Helen's timeless beauty”

   Synonymstimeless

   Similarunaltered

Questions about dateless

What does dateless mean?

dateless means "having no known beginning and presumably no end". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dateless?

dateless has 3 syllables: da-te-less. The stress falls on "da".

What is another word for dateless?

Close synonyms include endless, sempiternal, undated, timeless. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dateless a common word?

dateless 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.