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/ləs/ · suffix
Lacking (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun..
aweless, skill-less, artless, doubtless, countless, soulless, will-less, tireless.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, essentially what today we might term a frameless magnifying glass or plain glass paperweight.
Use -less when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
-less means Lacking (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun..
Common synonyms include an-, ex-, -free.
Possible antonyms include -ed, -y, -some, -ful.
aweless, skill-less, artless, doubtless, countless, soulless, will-less, tireless.
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