deedless

Meanings

1. Of real property whose owners' claim is not evidence by formal record of ownership, such as a deed.
2. Helpless; not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.

Etymology

From deed + -less; obsolete sense is from earlier dadless, probably from Old Norse dáðlauss (“without virtue, incapable, lacking in courage and drive, despicable, cowardly”). Cognate with Danish dådløs (“non-heroic”), Swedish dådlös (“listless, shiftless”).