Definitions

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  • adjective Destitute of rhyme.

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  • adjective linguistics Not rhymable, having no perfect rhymes.

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  • adjective not having rhyme

Etymologies

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rhyme +‎ -less

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Examples

  • A man wrote a song about her once, another man wrote a rhymeless poem, several numbers have been written on soggy placemats at the restaurant she works at, and a cop wrote a ticket she never paid.

    Strings Go Michael Seidel 2011

  • But the time was at hand, rhymeless and reasonless so far as I can see, when I was to begin to pay for my score of years of dallying with John Barleycorn.

    Chapter 30 2010

  • My dreams, if dreams they may be called, were rhymeless and reasonless.

    Chapter 6 2010

  • As I write this, all the beings and happenings of that other world rise up before me in vast phantasmagoria, and I know that to you they would be rhymeless and reasonless.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • Poe was the juiciest rhymer of the nineteenth century—before Swinburne, that is—but Mallarmé in his wisdom translated Poe into exquisitely rhymeless French prose, and then Mallarmé published his reverent prose translations in a book, with line drawings by Manet.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • Poe was the juiciest rhymer of the nineteenth century—before Swinburne, that is—but Mallarmé in his wisdom translated Poe into exquisitely rhymeless French prose, and then Mallarmé published his reverent prose translations in a book, with line drawings by Manet.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • As the Arabs ignore blank verse, when we come upon a rhymeless couplet we know that it is an extract from a longer composition in monorhyme.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The song is constructed by re- recording the rhymeless dialogue of Thatcher and Burke with singing, albeit unmelodic voices; the result is akin to an operetta.

    Archive 2007-04-22 2007

  • The song is constructed by re- recording the rhymeless dialogue of Thatcher and Burke with singing, albeit unmelodic voices; the result is akin to an operetta.

    Jack the Singing Giant Killer 2007

  • Congress does what it does sometimes in seemingly rhymeless, reasonless fashion.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2004 2004

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