Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
without offspring;
- Example: "in some societies a childless woman is rejected by her tribesmen"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Childless \Child"less\, a.
Destitute of chidren or offspring.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
childless
adj 1: without offspring; "in some societies a childless woman
is rejected by her tribesmen"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "childless":
acarpous, arid, barren, celibate, desert, desolate, drained,
dried-up, dry, exhausted, fallow, fruitless, gaunt, gelded,
impotent, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, issueless, jejune,
leached, menopausal, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive,
nonprolific, sine prole, sterile, sucked dry, teemless,
uncultivated, unfertile, unfruitful, unplowed, unproductive,
unprolific, unsown, untilled, virgin, waste, wasted,
without issue