Adjective: fineless
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more fineless |
| Superlative | most fineless |
Sample Sentences
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“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough,
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But riches fineless is as poor as winter
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To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
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Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
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From jealousy!” [c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:]
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fineless time [1904–1908, Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic Wars, […], (please specify |part=1 to 3), London: Macmillan and Co.: New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
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fineless library
Adjectives inflected like fineless
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From fine + -less, with "fine" in the sense of "end".