Etymology of the English suffix -less

Derivations in English

affectless, listless, tubeless, ageless, aimless, airless, artless, barbless, baseless, boundless, braless, brushless, buttonless, cashless, ceaseless, changeless, chartless, cheerless, christless, churchless, classless, complexionless, cordless, countless, dateless, dauntless, deathless, drainless, dreamless, drugless, effortless, exhaustless, faceless, fadeless, fathomless, featureless, flightless, flowerless, fordless, formless, frontless, futureless, gainless, godless, guileless, hammerless, hapless, heedless, hopeless, horizonless, jobless, jointless, keelless, keyless, lidless, limitless, luckless, massless, matchless, meaningless, motionless, moveless, nerveless, noteless, numberless, objectless, offenseless, opposeless, painless, passionless, pathless, pilotless, powerless, priceless, printless, purposeless, quenchless, rayless, recoilless, relentless, remorseless, reproachless, resistless, roofless, runless, rustless, sapless, seamless, searchless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shiftless, shoreless, sinkless, smokeless, songless, soulless, soundless, spaceless, spineless, springless, stainless, stalkless, stanchless, stateless, stockless, stormless, strapless, structureless, sunless, symptomless, tactless, taintless, tameless, tasteless, tearless, termless, thankless, thoughtless, timeless, tintless, tireless, topless, trustless, tuneless, useless, valueless, voiceless, voteless, wakeless, watchless, weightless, wingless, wireless, worthless, armless, beardless, blameless, colorless, footless, fruitless, graceless, guiltless, helpless, kindless, makeless, nameless, ruthless, saltless, spotless, strengthless, toothless, windless, wordless, dripless, questionless, remediless, sleepless, warless, weariless, shapeless, aweless, bloodless, bodiless, bootless, breathless, breechless, cloudless, doubtless, endless, faithless, fatherless, faultless, fearless, fireless, groundless, harmless, headless, heartless, houseless, hurtless, joyless, landless, lawless, leasing, lifeless, lightless, lordless, loveless, measureless, merciless, mindless, needless, peerless, pointless, reasonless, restless, rootless, shameless

Cognates

Dutch loos, German los, Icelandic laus, Swedish lös

Usage

Word found in Modern English