English edit

Etymology edit

degree +‎ -less

Adjective edit

degreeless (not comparable)

  1. without an academic degree
    • 1920, Rose Macaulay, Potterism[1]:
      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[2]:
      A university can confer a degree upon a distinguished man because it can judge whether his degreeless condition is due to accident or not.