Returnless

//ɹəˈtɜɹnləs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    from (or due to) which one will not, or cannot, return (of a journey, destination, situation, distance, etc.) not-comparable

    "Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow."

  2. 2
    which will not return not-comparable

    "—but now false Memory loosed Her time-worn cable from the wilder'd mind, Blotting the chart whereon it loved to gaze Mid the dim ocean of returnless years.—"

Example

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"Seventeen years had rolled on their returnless flight since that night of withering sorrow."

Etymology

From return + -less.

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