netless

Lacking a net.

Adjective

  1. Lacking a net.
    • In the demo, this drama is captured by footage of a teenager, small and spindly, walking across a vacant lot, basketball in hand, to a netless court in a nearby school yard. - 1988 February 5, Ben Joravsky, “Basketball...
  2. Without Internet access.
    • For the netless, id [software company] plans to ship 500,000 copies of a CD-ROM-based version to retail stores. - 1996, TIME, page 62:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *neHd- Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *natją Proto-West Germanic *nati Old English nett Middle English net English net Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English netless From net + -less.