From Middle English childles; equivalent to child + -less.
childless (not comparable)
- Not having any children.
1899, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter I, in The Sleeper Awakes[1]:I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part. I am wifeless—childless—who is it speaks of the childless as the dead twigs on the tree of life?
- Azerbaijani: sonsuz (az), övladsız, oğul-uşaqsız
- Belarusian: бяздзе́тны (bjazdzjétny)
- Bulgarian: безде́тен (bezdéten)
- Catalan: sense fills
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 沒有兒女的／没有儿女的 (méiyǒu érnǚ de), 無子女的／无子女的 (wúzǐnǚ de), 無兒無女的／无儿无女的 (wú'érwúnǚ de)
- Czech: bezdětný (cs)
- Danish: barnløs (da)
- Dutch: kinderloos (nl)
- Esperanto: seninfana
- Finnish: lapseton (fi)
- French: sans enfants
- Galician: sen fillos
- German: kinderlos (de)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌰𐌷𐍃 (unbarnahs)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἄτεκνος (áteknos), ἄπαις (ápais)
- Hungarian: gyermektelen (hu)
- Interlingua: sin infantes
- Irish: gan chlann, gan chúram, gan leanbh
- Japanese: 子供のいない (こどものいない, kodomo no inai)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bêzarok (ku)
- Lithuanian: bevaikis
- Macedonian: бездетен (bezdeten)
- Maori: huatea, huamutu
- Middle English: childles, barnles
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: barnløs, barnlaus
- Nynorsk: barnlaus
- Old English: bearnlēas
- Polish: bezdzietny (pl), bezpotomny (pl)
- Portuguese: sem filhos
- Russian: безде́тный (ru) (bezdétnyj)
- Slovak: bezdetný
- Spanish: sin hijos
- Swahili: gumba (sw)
- Swedish: barnlös (sv)
- Turkish: çocuksuz (tr)
- Ukrainian: безді́тний (uk) (bezdítnyj)
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