crewless

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈkruləs/ UK /ˈkruːləs/ See IPA manual

adj

Meanings

1

adj
having no crew; unmanned

A crewless drone ship ferried supplies to the research station.

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Synonyms

1 adj · having no crew; unmanned unmanneduncrewedautomated

Opposites

crewed manned

Word family

Related forms crew crewman

Etymology

From 'crew' + the privative suffix '-less'; 'crew' comes from Middle French 'creue' ('augmentation, reinforcement'), from Latin 'crēscere' ('to grow').

creue Old French crēscere Latin

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# crewless

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** ˈkruləs
**IPA (UK):** ˈkruːləs

## Meanings
1. having no crew; unmanned

## Examples
- A crewless drone ship ferried supplies to the research station.

## Synonyms
- unmanned
- uncrewed
- automated

## Antonyms
- crewed
- manned

## Related Forms
- crew
- crewman

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: creue
- Root: crēscere

## Etymology
From 'crew' + the privative suffix '-less'; 'crew' comes from Middle French 'creue' ('augmentation, reinforcement'), from Latin 'crēscere' ('to grow').

## AI Etymology
Crewless is from 'crew' + the privative suffix '-less'; 'crew' comes from Middle French 'creue' ('augmentation, reinforcement'), from Latin 'crēscere' ('to grow'). The ancestry passes through Middle French creue and Latin crēscere. In present use as an adjective, it means "having no crew; unmanned", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include crew and crewman. Its contrast set includes crewed and manned, which clarifies the semantic boundary of the modern word.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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