overtakeless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From overtake +‎ -less.

Adjective[edit]

overtakeless (comparative more overtakeless, superlative most overtakeless)

  1. (poetic, rare) Impossible to overtake or surpass.
    • 2023, Tiffany Eberle Kriner, In Thought, Word, and Seed: Reckonings from a Midwest Farm, Grand Rapids, M.I.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., →ISBN, unnumbered page:
      All along the way was the tangle of branches I'd cut this season—just as overtakeless as the wickets of the living.

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