Mateless vs Dateless - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between mateless and dateless

is that mateless is without a mate while dateless is out of one's head; deranged or dateless can be without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.

mateless

English

Adjective

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Without a mate

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dateless

English

Etymology 1

. See also deedless.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Out of one's head; deranged.

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(British, dialect, slang) thick-headed

They're so dateless that Burger King will not offer them a job.

* {{quote-book, 1997, , Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice, page=281 citation

, passage=Into the court you'd swanned, you dateless little pillock, if not wholly confident of winning, surely careless of losing.}}

* {{quote-book, 1976, Fred Beake, Legends from Mammon, page=8 citation

, passage=You dateless fool, you stupid ass, clamped to / This crag for all eternity}}

* {{quote-news, 2001, August 4, Lynne Walker, Classical: Musical portrait of the artist as a young man, The Independent citation

, passage="You dateless article," stormed his father, leaving Bennett to realise in his laconic way that he was, and probably always would be, a disappointment to Dad.}}

Etymology 2

Coined between 1585 and 1595 from “Dateless” at Dictionary.com][http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dateless “Dateless” in Merriam-Webster

Adjective

(-)

Without a date imprinted, assigned, or associated.

Having no date—a meeting with a lover or potential lover.

It is hard to believe that she could be dateless on a Saturday night.

Timeless; immortal

Without a start; immemorial

(archaic) Without an end; endless

* William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXX ,

Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, / For precious friends hid in death's dateless night

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