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Lacking (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun.

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IPA(Pronunciation)

/ləs/

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Lacking (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun.

Japanese Meaning

〜がない / 〜欠如している / 〜なし（〜を持たない意）

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When teaching morphology, I often show students how the suffix -less creates adjectives meaning without or lacking something.

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形態論を教えるとき、私はしばしば接尾辞が「〜がない」や「何かが欠けている」という意味の形容詞を作ることを学生に示します。

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Lacking (something); without (something). Added usually to a noun to form an adjective signifying a lack of that noun.

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.

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