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Treadless vs Dreadless - What's the difference?

treadless | dreadless |

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

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  • Without treads.
  • * 1999 , Lisa Michaels, Split: A Counterculture Childhood (page 73)
    • 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.
  • * 2008 , Michael Beres, Chernobyl Murders (page 60)
    • 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.

    dreadless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.