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PRONUNCIATION OF RIGHTLESS

rightless  [ˈraɪtləs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RIGHTLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rightless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES RIGHTLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of rightless in the English dictionary

The definition of rightless in the dictionary is lacking rights.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RIGHTLESS


atlas
ˈætləs
costless
ˈkɒstləs
creditless
ˈkrɛdɪtləs
cutlass
ˈkʌtləs
exitless
ˈɛksɪtləs
foresightless
ˈfɔːˌsaɪtləs
gritless
ˈɡrɪtləs
hitless
ˈhɪtləs
jacketless
ˈdʒækɪtləs
knightless
ˈnaɪtləs
limitless
ˈlɪmɪtləs
riteless
ˈraɪtləs
sateless
ˈseɪtləs
shirtless
ˈʃɜːtləs
shitless
ˈʃɪtləs
slitless
ˈslɪtləs
tactless
ˈtæktləs
textless
ˈtekstləs
ticketless
ˈtɪkɪtləs
weightless
ˈweɪtləs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RIGHTLESS

righteous
righteously
righteousness
righter
rightful
rightfully
rightfulness
rightish
rightism
rightist
rightly
rightmost
rightness
righto
rights
rights issue
rights of way
rightsize
rightsizing
rightward

WORDS THAT END LIKE RIGHTLESS

bottomless
contactless
countless
crustless
dauntless
doubtless
effortless
faultless
fretless
fruitless
heartless
heatless
meatless
pointless
relentless
restless
scentless
shiftless
spotless
thoughtless
ventless

Synonyms and antonyms of rightless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rightless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RIGHTLESS

Find out the translation of rightless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rightless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rightless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

rightless
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin derechos
570 millions of speakers

English

rightless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

rightless
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

rightless
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бесправный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sem direitos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

rightless
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sans droits
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak betul
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

recht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

権利無効
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

rightless
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tengen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

rightless
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

rightless
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

राक्षस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hak sahibi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

senza diritti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pozbawionym praw
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безправний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rightless
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

rightless
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

rightless
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rättslösa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rightless
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rightless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RIGHTLESS»

The term «rightless» is normally little used and occupies the 149.003 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RIGHTLESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rightless» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rightless» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rightless

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIGHTLESS»

Discover the use of rightless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rightless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rightless Women, Heartless Men: Egyptian Women and Domestic ...
Information on the batterer.
Mārlīn Tādrus, 1998
2
Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A ...
Arendt is making the point that being deprived of civil rights does not make you completely rightless. Since this is the case, she argues that there must be something more fundamental than civil rights; there must be something that the rightless ...
Serena Parekh, 2008
3
The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches, ...
The point is that a condition of complete rightless- ness was created before the right to live was challenged. The same is true even to an ironical extent with regard to the right of freedom which is sometimes considered to be the very essence of ...
Micheline Ishay, 2007
4
Republicanism and Political Theory
This intrinsic value is present not just in cases of bearers of human rights living in a fully realized democratic political community, but also in the case of the rightless person who lacks all of these statuses and powers and had his or her human ...
Cecile Laborde, John Maynor, 2009
5
Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the ...
Hence, because permanently criminalized, rightless statuses are also always already racialized, law ensures that there will always be a population of color rendered permanently rightless in the United States. Whiteness as (Private) Property ...
Lisa Marie Cacho, 2012
6
The Right to Have Rights: Citizenship, Humanity, and ...
Are human rights merely the rights of the rightless (the rights for example of the indefinitely detained stateless person) or of those who already have rights (the rights of the citizen) and thus meaningless? Thinking with and beyond Arendt, ...
Alison Kesby, 2012
7
An Introduction to International Refugee Law
The legal subordination of rightless subjects or subjects with lesser rights than citizens is a legal produc- tion, it is a legal lawlessness. Yet we need to further interrogate how the production of a predominantly western conception of rights as ...
M. Rafiqul Islam, Md. Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, 2013
8
Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other
Oxford English Dictionary). The first meaning comes from its roots in the Greek verb kauteriazein, which means to burn with a kauter or a branding iron. Such branding was historically done to physically mark a slave or criminal as rightless.
William Paul Simmons, 2011
9
Kristeva and the Political
5 This can be seen in the second part of The Origins of T otalitarianism, where Hannah Arendt sees the irony persisting between those from prosperous and secure nations idealistically arguing for 'inalienable' human rights and the rightless, ...
Cecilia Sjoholm, 2004
10
Democracy across Borders
This intrinsic value is present not just in cases of bearers of human rights living in a fully realized democratic political community, but also in the case of rightless persons, of those who have suffered the loss of their status rights in crimes ...
James Bohman, 2007

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIGHTLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rightless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Letter: Socialism is the politics of thieves
It creates a rightless society, a virtual anarchy, be it in the streets or in Congress. Example: the recent edict from the Supreme Court, which eviscerated the ... «Times Herald-Record, May 15»
2
Op-Ed: The problem of militarisation and depoliticisation in South …
Under apartheid various massacres and killings demonstrated that black life - the lives of a rightless people - was cheaper than conceding to a demand or ... «Daily Maverick, Dec 14»
3
Philosophy reframes today's concerns
“The heart of what it means to be stateless is to be rightless, in that you lack a community to protect your rights” she said. Western nations, which ultimately take ... «News@Northeastern, Jul 12»
4
Nature to Get Legal Rights in Bolivia
“This is partly because until the rightless thing receives its rights, we cannot see it as anything but a thing for the use of us.” Image: Bolivia's Mamore River, ... «Wired News, Apr 11»
5
Individual Freedom vs. the Right to a Cell Phone
... on other people to satisfy you, then they have no choice in their lives... your right to anything at others' involuntary expense means that they become rightless.". «American Thinker, Oct 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Rightless [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/rightless>. Apr 2024 ».
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