netless

English

Etymology

From net +‎ -less.

Adjective

netless (not comparable)

1. Lacking a net.
   • 1988 February 5, Ben Joravsky, “Basketball dreams: filmmakers find a passport to black culture”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     In the demo, this drama is captured by footage of a teenager, small and spindly, walking across a vacant lot, basketball in hand, to a netless court in a nearby school yard.

2. Without Internet access.
   • 1996, TIME, page 62:

     For the netless, id [software company] plans to ship 500,000 copies of a CD-ROM-based version to retail stores.

Anagrams

• nestles