without
Part of speech: adv
prep
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
Etymology: From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out.
Superseded non-native Middle English sauns, sans (“without”), from Old French sans, sanz, senz (“without”).
Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *bez (“without”) (<+ Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs (“out”)).
Inflected forms:
form: withoute
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wythoute
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wythowt
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wythowte
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: withoute
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wythoute
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wythowt
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wythowte
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Outside, externally.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
literary
not-comparable
examples: And as each and all of them were warmed without by the sun, so each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, at least some remote and distant hope which, though perhaps starving to nothing, still lived on, as hopes will.
Strange silence here: without, the sounding street
Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without.
The feeling seemed to come not from without, but from within each body, as though every person had become a vibrating string.
Brainiac: This earthquake is quite literally worldwide.
Alex Danvers: But the seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.
gloss: Lacking something; failing.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
We've run out of bread; you'll have to do without until I can get to the bakeshop.
Whose can be used with a following noun or without.
Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
gloss: Without a condom being worn.
pos: adv
tags: euphemistic
not-comparable
examples: “What's within reason?” “Hand-job, blow-job, full sex — straight, full service. Greek, maybe, if you're not too big. Golden shower, if you like, but not reverse. No hardsports. And absolutely nothing without.”
gloss: Outside of, beyond.
pos: prep
tags: archaic
literary
examples: MACBETH: There's blood upon your face.
FIRST MURDERER: 'Tis Banquo's then.
MACBETH: 'Tis better thee without than he within.
Without the gate / Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.
From thence we came without the Eaſtern gate, (ſtanding on a low Banke, called the daughter of Syon, that over-toppeth the valley of Iehoſaphat,) unto an immoveable ſtone, upon the which they ſaid St. Stephen was ſtoned to death, the firſt Martyr of the Chriſtian faith; and the faithfull fore-runner of many noble followers.
Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.
[…] though it was pitch-dark, and we were obliged to be escorted by grooms and groomlings with candles and lanterns; a very necessary precaution, as the winds blew not more violently without the house than within.
[...] nor shall any slave holder be allowed to emancipate his or her slave or slaves without the consent of congress, unless he or she shall send his or her slave or slaves without the limits of the republic [of Texas].
gloss: Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
pos: prep
examples: It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
I was without formal education but was well read and articulate.
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
One day my dreams were surely dying, dying, dying baby
Just like a flower without rain
1967, Paul McCartney (writer), The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Life goes on within you and without you.
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema.
"Read lips: Without gas or without you? Without you. Without light or without you? Without you. Without water or without you? Without you. Without food or without you? Without you.
"Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as terrible and deadly for us as your "friendship and brotherhood."
gloss: Not doing or not having done something.
pos: prep
examples: He likes to eat everything without sharing.
He shot without warning anyone.
Without noticing it I grew old.
But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
Synonyms: lacking
outwith
with no
-less
w/o
sans
-free
minus
devoid of
excluding
excusing
neglecting
void of
without
Antonyms: within
with
having
characteristic of
endowed with
including
Derived words: Calne Without
Chippenham Without
Clifton Without
Llanidloes Without
make it do or do without
Melksham Without
Millom Without
Minehead Without
St Cuthbert Without
Wellington Without
do without
go without
absence without leave
absent without leave
a prophet is not without honor save in his own country
a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
can't live with them and can't live without them
cold without
decimal without a zero
distinction without a difference
face without makeup
fly without a licence
go without saying
handle without gloves
handle without mittens
it goes without saying
let he who is without sin cast the first stone
let him that is without sin cast the first stone
let him who is without sin cast the first stone
Life without Death
make bricks without clay
make bricks without straw
make bricks without straws
make off without payment
making off without payment
may the Force be without you
minister without portfolio
no gain without pain
no rose without a thorn
no show without Punch
no smoke without fire
nothing about us without us
rebel without a cause
reckon without
reckon without one's host
syndrome without a name
there's no smoke without fire
times without number
up a creek without a paddle
up the creek without a paddle
up shit creek without a paddle
up shit's creek without a paddle
without accident
without a doubt
without a hitch
without a murmur
without a prayer
without a scratch
without a shadow of a doubt
without a trace
without trace
without a word of a lie
without batting an eye
without batting an eyelash
without batting an eyelid
without biscuits
without blinking an eye
without blinking an eyelash
without blinking an eyelid
without book
without cause
without cease
without ceremony
without coffee
without day
without-door
withoutdoors
without doubt
without end
without exception
without fail
without fear or favor
without fear or favour
without further ado
without incident
without loss of generality
withoutness
without number
without prejudice
without price
without question
without recourse
without so much as a by your leave
without tea and biscuits
without tears
without troubling the scorers
without welt or guard
Wokingham Without
world without end
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
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