skyscraperless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

skyscraper +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

skyscraperless (not comparable)

  1. Without a skyscraper or skyscrapers.
    • 1970, Henry George News, volume 33, page 67:
      Change is coming faster and faster in our technology, so there isn't a chance in the world that our cities of 1999 will be any more like today's cities than were the autoless, subwayless, skyscraperless, air conditioning-less almost elevatorless cities of 1899.
    • 2006, Robert Sullivan, The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures on the Edge of New York City:
      There were radio towers ahead of us and high-tension lines picking up speed as they raced across the skyscraperless sky.
    • 2013, Not For Tourists Guide to Washington DC 2014:
      Best view of skyscraper-less Washington.