Dateless and Old

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Dateless adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

Usage example: dateless artifacts left by an obscure people of the distant past

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Old and dateless are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Old" instead an adjective "Dateless".

Old adjective - Dating or surviving from the distant past.

Usage example: an extremely old piece of jewelry was discovered in the Egyptian ruins

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Dateless and old are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dateless" instead an adjective "Old".

Nearby Words: oldie, olden, oldish

There's a 32-year-old (Hollywood Dateless and unemployed) man who's having trouble cooking for himself.

Source: Basement-Dweller
A rare male example appeared in Came Out of the Darkness when Seamus Finnegan complained that he was going to end up going stag to the Yule Ball and an equally-dateless Dean Thomas replied "It's not like we're going to die two old men alone surrounded by cats."

Source: Crazy Cat Lady
Despite the amount of slut jokes they make none of them are meant in malice, and are pretty much part of the chemistry between Blanche and her roommates, just as they'll joke about how dumb Rose is, how mannish and Hollywood Dateless Dorothy is, and how old and mean Sophia is.

Source: Slut-Shaming

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