Lordless

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Without a lord. not-comparable

    "[…] whose sons, from days long before the Conquest, have always desired to go to sea when the cuckoo sang, and to come home again when they were tired of the hail and salt showers, because they could not bear to be landless and lordless men."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having no lord or master wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
masterlessmasterless

Example

More examples

"[…] whose sons, from days long before the Conquest, have always desired to go to sea when the cuckoo sang, and to come home again when they were tired of the hail and salt showers, because they could not bear to be landless and lordless men."

Etymology

From Middle English lordles, loverdles, from Old English hlāfordlēas, equivalent to lord + -less.

More for "lordless"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.