different between without vs lidless

English

Alternative forms

• withoute (archaic); wythoute, wythowt (obsolete), wythowte (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþ?tan (literally “against the outside of”); equivalent to with +? out. Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /w???a?t/, /w?ð?a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [w?????t], [w?ð???t]
• Hyphenation: with?out

Adverb

without (not comparable)

1. (archaic or literary) Outside, externally. This is still used in the names of some civil parishes in England, e.g. St Cuthbert Without.
   • c.1600s, William Shakespeare, Macbeth

     Macbeth: There's blood upon your face

     Murderer: 'tis Banquo's then

     Macbeth: 'tis better thee without then he within.

   • 1900, Ernest Dowson, Benedictio Domini, lines 13-14

     Strange silence here: without, the sounding street

     Heralds the world's swift passage to the fire

   • 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez (Norton 2005, p.1100)

     I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without.

   • 2019 December 8, Supergirl (TV series), season 5, episode 8, "Crisis on Infinite Earths":

     Brainiac: This earthquake is quite literally worldwide.

     Alex Danvers: But the seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.

2. Lacking something.

   Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.

3. (euphemistic) In prostitution: without a condom being worn.

Derived terms

• a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
• St Cuthbert Without
• Wokingham Without

Preposition

without

1. (archaic or literary) Outside of, beyond.

   Antonym: within

   • Without the gate / Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein.

   • c. 1689, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth

     Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.

   • 1967, Paul McCartney (writer), The Beatles, Sgt Pepper

     Life goes on within you and without you.

2. Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.

   Antonym: with

   • One day my dreams were surely dying, dying, dying baby
     Just like a flower without rain
3. Not doing or not having done something.
   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     But in the meantime Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.

Synonyms

• lacking, outwith, with no, -less, w/o, sans, -free

Antonyms

• (outside): within
• (not having): with, having, characteristic of, endowed with

Derived terms

• withoutness
• without trace, without a trace

Translations

Conjunction

without

1. (archaic or dialectal) Unless, except (introducing a clause).
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin, 2006, p.264:

     ‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this—without we mean to marry—’

Anagrams

• outwith

English

Etymology

lid +? -less

Adjective

lidless (not comparable)

1. Without a lid.
   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year,” Epode II, in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle & Messrs. Robinsons, 2nd edition, p. 15,^[1]

     […] yet, as she lies

     By livid fount, or roar of blazing stream,

     If ever to her lidless dragon eyes,

     O Albion! thy predestin’d ruins rise,

     The Fiend-hag on her perilous couch doth leap,

     Mutt’ring distemper’d triumph in her charmed sleep.

   • 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 9,^[2]

     Two or three minutes later the murdered man, the blanketed corpse, the lidless coffin, and the open grave were under no inspection but the moon’s.

   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 6,^[3]

     You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “Cook Street,”^[4]

     When I exercised the pony, old Johnny, after school hours I loved to ride through the Cook Street chaos of garbage. High and safe on the horse’s back I could look down into it and see wild rose bushes forcing their blooms up through lidless cook stoves and skunk cabbage peeping out of bottomless perambulators, beds tipped at any angle, their years of restfulness all finished and done with.

Anagrams

• Sidells