without
About 343.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb Outside, externally.
- adverb Lacking something; failing.
Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
- adverb Without a condom being worn.
- preposition Outside of, beyond.
- preposition Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
- preposition Not doing or not having done something.
He likes to eat everything without sharing.
- conjunction Unless, except (introducing a clause).
- noun Someone or something lacking in something.
Similar words
outside out off apart beyond while let except otherwise fully
Often followed by
the a any being having an it his which regard
Word family
withouts
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