crewless C2+ Topic:People & Society US /ˈkruləs/ UK /ˈkruːləs/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 adj having no crew; unmanned A crewless drone ship ferried supplies to the research station. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · having no crew; unmanned unmanneduncrewedautomated ↔ Opposites crewedmanned Word family Related forms crewcrewman Etymology AI details From 'crew' + the privative suffix '-less'; 'crew' comes from Middle French 'creue' ('augmentation, reinforcement'), from Latin 'crēscere' ('to grow'). creue Old French crēscere Latin View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # 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 markdown