degreeless
English
Etymology
degree + -less
Adjective
degreeless (not comparable)
- without an academic degree
- 1920, Rose Macaulay, Potterism:
- There also went the confidential secretaries, the clerks and shorthand typists, in their hundreds; degreeless, brainless beings, but wise in their generation. '
- 1912, Emile Faguet, The Cult of Incompetence:
- A university can confer a degree upon a distinguished man because it can judge whether his degreeless condition is due to accident or not.
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