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Etymology

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From offspring +‎ -less.

Adjective

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offspringless (not comparable)

  1. Without offspring.
    • 1969, Health Aspects of Pesticides Abstract Bulletin, volume 2, page 407:
      [] whether definite dependencies could be established for changes in these parameters, in chronic lead poisoning in offspringless dogs.
    • 2000, Iain M. Banks, Look To Windward:
      How exactly did this offspringless coupling affect the two protagonists? How would they each change? Was it an equal trade or did one partner dominate the other?