tenseless

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English

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Etymology

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From tense +‎ -less.

Adjective

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tenseless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking grammatical tense
    • 2008 August 27, Kevin Dewan, “Review of Heather Dyke, Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
      Those who endorse the A-theory of time, for example, often attempt to show that tense is ineliminable, i. e., it is impossible to adequately paraphrase tensed sentences into tenseless ones.

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