Branchless

Quick meaning: Branchless is an adjective meaning Without branches; continuing in a single path or piece; without divergence.

Meaning

Without branches; continuing in a single path or piece; without divergence.

Example Sentences

“[…] At the end of this corridor I shall come to a spiral runway which I must follow down instead of up; after that the way is along but a single branchless corridor.”

Gentle Octavia, Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless.

These days it looks as though more Americans than ever are willing to let go. They are traveling through coinless tollbooths, banking at branchless banks, riding in tokenless subways and paying for everything from taxi rides to mortgages with the swipe of a card or the blip of an electronic transfer.

1886, [Henry H. Sweet], Palmistry; or, the Science of Reading the Past, Present and Future, in the Language of the Hands, New York: The Serial Leaflet Publishing Co., p. 21, One long, clear, branchless line indicates great distinction in some one thing; but if dividing into branches, or accompanied by parallel lines of strength equal to its own, there is danger that multiplicity of aims will strangle success.

Synonyms for branchless

Depending on context, synonyms include unbranched, unbranching.

Antonyms for branchless

Common opposites include branchy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unbranching, unbranched, skipless, divisionless, bendless, segmentless.

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