Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no reward.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having, or affording, no reward.

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  • adjective Lacking reward

Etymologies

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reward +‎ -less

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Examples

  • They will go rewardless, while the faithful saints, who toiled and served, who spent and were spent, following closely in His steps, will receive rewards.

    The Work Of Christ Past, Present and Future Arno Clemens Gaebelein 1903

  • It's a white flower with a red centre, but it's rewardless.

    - The Naked Scientists Naked Science Radio Show PODCAST - Stripping Down Science 2010

  • The Promotion: Autocrats force racist middle management employees into a competition for a rewardless position.

    How Now Brownpau 2009

  • The Promotion: Autocrats force racist middle management employees into a competition for a rewardless position.

    How Now Brownpau 2009

  • Hard work, only a small part of which was the kind he found satisfying, no ego gratification any longer that began to match the intoxication of those years when the business was still growing in prestige and financial success; an ever-widening gap between himself and his grown children; an empty, rewardless marriage; the casual, pleasant relationships with a variety of women, for sex, for relaxation, for fun, and sometimes merely out of the cheerless compulsion of another form of ego need.

    Sudden Rain Maritta Wolff 2009

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