goalless

English

Etymology

From goal +‎ -less.

Adjective

goalless (not comparable)

1. Devoid of goals; ambitionless.
   • 1991, Indu Prakash Singh, Commonism, the manifesto of a new social order:

     Except for those who directly benefit from the system, life becomes a goalless existence, in which the worst human aberrations start germinating.

2. (sports) Without goals; in which no goals have been scored; having scored no goals.
   • 2012 May 11, Chris Osborne, “Stevenage 0-0 Sheff Utd”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Stevenage and Sheffield United played out a goalless draw in their League One play-off semi-final first leg.

Translations

without ambition

• Esperanto: sencela
• Finnish: päämäärätön
• German: ziellos (de)

without scored goals

• Finnish: maaliton
• German: torlos (de)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: mållaus, målløs (no)

  Nynorsk: mållaus

• Polish: bezbramkowy (pl)
• Swedish: mållös (sv)

See also

• scoreless

Anagrams

• gaolless