dowerless

1. 1.

   lacking a dowry

   Similarunendowed

   archaism

Questions about dowerless

What does dowerless mean?

dowerless means "lacking a dowry".

How many syllables are in dowerless?

dowerless has 3 syllables and divides as do-wer-less under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is dowerless a common word?

dowerless is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.