Treadless vs Dreadless - What's the difference?
treadless | dreadless |
Without treads.
* 1999 , Lisa Michaels, Split: A Counterculture Childhood (page 73)
* 2008 , Michael Beres, Chernobyl Murders (page 60)
Feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
*:So doubly is distrest twixt ioy and cares / The dreadlesse courage of this Elfin knight, / Hauing escapt so sad ensamples in his sight.
*, I.40:
*:And to make shew of his dreadlesse magnanimitie, having caused a pan of burning coales to be brought, he saw and suffred his right arme.
(obsolete) Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.
*Spenser
*:Safe in his dreadless den.
As adjectives the difference between treadless and dreadless
is that treadless is without treads while dreadless is feeling no dread or fear; unafraid.treadless
English
Adjective
(-)- But no sooner had I got the hang of it than those treadless vanity boots shot out from under me. That was the last thing I remembered.
- Because his tires were small and almost treadless , he could not maintain the speed of a Volga, which passed him, its fat tires lifting packed snow onto his windshield.