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Word entry · 7 letters

without

Best crossword clue

"Lacking something"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /wɪðˈaʊt/Sorted hiottuwStarts with WEnds with T2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Not having; lacking

Word origin

From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out.

Used in a sentence

  • Strange silence here: without, the sounding street Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire
  • I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without.
  • The feeling seemed to come not from without, but from within each body, as though every person had become a vibrating string.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Lacking something7 letters
02Not having7 letters

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