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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no state.
  • adjective Not having any recognized citizenship in a state or nation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without state or pomp.

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

  • adjective Without state or pomp.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective computer science Of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.
  • adjective dated Without state or pomp.
  • adjective law Without a state or nationality, not subject to any state.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective without nationality or citizenship

Etymologies

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state +‎ -less

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