birthlessadj.
/ˈbəːθləs/, U.S. /ˈbərθləs/ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [adjective]
unsped1390
unprosperous1496
speedlessa1542
successless1584
abortive1593
still-born1600
unsuccessful1617
unsuccessive1617
unsucceeding1639
insuccessful1646
birthless1649
failed1655
misproving1798
inconclusive1841
abortional1843
nonsuccessful1867
also-ran1900
1649 J. Owen Serm. in Wks. (1851) VIII. 234 Their plots and undertakings have generally proved tympanous and birthless; vexation and disappointment hath been the portion of the residue of their dayes.
2.
a. Of an emotion, experience, etc.: without (apparent) origin or beginning; that has always existed. Cf. deathless adj. 1.
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the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective]
echec825
echelichc825
endlessc888
lastinga1225
everlastingc1225
perdurablec1275
perpetuala1325
unendeda1325
incorruptiblea1340
ay-lastingc1340
inlastingc1340
eternec1366
interminablec1374
unstanchablec1374
ever-duringa1382
eternalc1386
sempitern1390
never-failinga1400
sempiternal14..
ever-being?a1425
ever-durable?a1425
immarcescible?a1475
perennal?c1500
deathless1547
everlastable1548
incessant1557
unperishing1561
undeterminable1581
evera1586
unendlya1586
inexterminable1592
never-ending?1592
aeviternal1596
dateless1597
undecaying1599
entombless1601
perishless1605
ageless1609
continual1610
perpetuous1612
imperible1614
ne'er-endinga1616
out-date1623
undated1624
perennious1628
immortal1630
imperishable1648
birthless1651
fadeless1652
sempiternous1653
evergreen1655
intemporal1656
indefectible1659
inconclusible1660
unending1661
aeonian1664
unfading1665
sempervirent1668
amaranthal1674
ne'er-dying1693
perennial1717
timeless1742
indefeatablea1754
amaranthine1782
aeonial1800
unterminating1821
unevanescent1827
ay1845
forever1879
sempervirid1909
1651 L. Willan Astræa 128 Your high rais'd Fancies wake from birthless Dreams.
1896 Hastings & St. Leonards (E. Sussex) Observer 21 Mar. 6/9 My birthless love for Thee remains.
1926 Musical Times 67 693 The real prophet has immense appeal... His message..speaks of those emotions which spring deathless and birthless from the mind of God.
2013 New Indian Express (Nexis) 16 June Enlightenment is a rich, blissful, deathless, birthless and ageless experience.
b. Of God, the self, etc.: existing without having been born. Cf. deathless adj. 2.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > self-existent > existing without having been made
unmadec1350
ungotten1435
unproduceda1513
unbegotten1532
ungenerate1546
uncreate1549
uncreated1549
unbegot1597
unprocreated1623
ingenerated1646
unprocreatea1649
ingenerate1656
improduced1662
ingenit1677
ungenerated1741
unborn1822
birthless1830
1830 S. L. Fairfield Abaddon & Other Poems 83 With awful reverence on my soul I gaze, The echoed image of a birthless God.
2004 O. N. Krishnan In Search of Reality 40 A very important teaching of the Upaniṣads is that the Self of the person is birthless and deathless. It is immortal.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > lowness of birth > [adjective]
low-bornc1275
ungentlec1374
unnoblea1382
bastardly1552
baseborn1553
ingenerous1621
lowly born1623
earth-born1630
unpedigreed1787
birthless1817
unaristocratic1841
disconnected1847
pedigreeless1859
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy III. iv. 122 Nameless and birthless villains tread on the neck of the brave and the long-descended.
1858 A. Trollope Dr. Thorne II. ix. 168 Poor Mary was such a birthless foundling.
1904 Daily Chron. 29 Jan. 3/3 They..agree to boycott the birthless Winkler in the most thorough manner.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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