Without example or precedent; unprecedented; having no parallel or model to follow.
From example + -less (Old English -leas, 'without, lacking'). The -less suffix is one of the most productive in English, creating antonyms and expressing absence.
The -less suffix is brilliantly flexible: it can attach to almost any noun to mean 'without it,' which is why we get exampleless, homeless, helpless, and even frameworkless—making English incredibly adaptive for creating new descriptions when we need them.
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