Definition of Goalless

1. Adjective. Having no points scores. "A scoreless inning"

Exact synonyms: Hitless, Scoreless
Similar to: Unsuccessful

Definition of Goalless

1. Adjective. Devoid of goals; ambitionless. ¹

2. Adjective. (sports) In which no goals have been scored. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Goalless

1. having no goal [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Goalless

goalbox
goalboxes
goaled
goaler
goalers
goalhanger
goalhangers
goalie
goalies
goaling
goalkeeper
goalkeepers
goalkeeping
goalkicker
goalkickers
goalless (current term)
goallessly
goallessness
goalline
goalmouth
goalmouths
goalpost
goalposts
goals
goalscorer
goalscorers
goalscoring
goalside
goalsneak
goalsneaks

Literary usage of Goalless

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Helsinki Process: Negotiating Security & Cooperation in Europe. by John Fry (1999)
"More Than A goalless Draw During the Christmas recess, while Ambassador Goldberg met with representatives of emigre groups in the United States and ..."

2. You Can Choose to Be Happy: "Rise Above" Anxiety, Anger, and Depression by Tom G. Stevens (1998)
"They create a goalless state in which their old goals are suspended, and they have yet to create new, realistic, acceptable goals. That goalless state is ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"I was confused by certain terms frequently used in the text which lacked operational definitions, such as "goalless," "pleasurable," ..."

4. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1884)
"goalless, under the broiling sun, unincumbered, unadorned by plume or service medal, pale and wan after their night of toil and their day of hunger, thirst, ..."

5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"... Helped on with song, now scrapes the violin ; Waking the Tutor from his first brief doze, And his starched dignity from it» repose, goalless and ..."

6. The Field of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Study of Philosophy by Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919)
"Either humanity, as it toils in history, is engaged in an endless and goalless task and then progress is a self-contradictory notion; or the goal is to be ..."

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