Dateless Definition & Meaning

dateless
adjective
  1. having no known beginning and presumably no end; "the dateless rise and fall of the tides"; "time is endless"; "sempiternal truth"
  2. of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; "dateless customs"
  3. not bearing a date; "a dateless letter"
  4. unaffected by time; "few characters are so dateless as Hamlet"; "Helen's timeless beauty"

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