with the absence, omission, or avoidance of; not with; with no or none of; lacking: without help; without shoes; without her helping me; without him to help.
free from; excluding: a world without hunger.
not accompanied by: Don't go without me.
at, on, or to the outside of; outside of: both within and without the house or the city.
beyond the compass, limits, range, or scope of (now used chiefly in opposition to within): whether within or without the law.
adverb
in or into an exterior or outer place; outside.
outside a house, building, etc.: The carriage awaits without.
lacking something implied or understood: We must take this or go without.
as regards the outside; externally.
noun
the outside of a place, region, area, room, etc.
conjunction
Midland and Southern U.S.unless.
Origin of without
before 900; Middle English withouten,Old English withūtan (adv. and preposition), equivalent to withwith + -ūtan from without, equivalent to ūtout + -an suffix of motion from
Words nearby without
with one arm tied behind one's back, with one's eyes open, with one's pants down, with one voice, with open arms, without, without a leg to stand on, without a stitch on, without batting an eye, withoutdoors, without doubt