English edit

Etymology edit

pretense +‎ -less

Adjective edit

pretenseless (comparative more pretenseless, superlative most pretenseless)

  1. Not having or making pretenses.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pretenseless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)