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Definition of Airless
1. Adjective. Lacking fresh air. "Hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke"
Definition of Airless
1. a. Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.
Definition of Airless
1. Adjective. Lacking or being without air. ¹
2. Adjective. Lacking air circulation. ¹
3. Adjective. With air that is stale. ¹
4. Adjective. (medical) Suffering from asphyxia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Airless
1. having no air [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airless
Literary usage of Airless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"... covered with a red quilt, in a shuttered and airless room. chapter DONT I, in
looking for things to do, show that I'm not attentive enough to Will? ..."
2. History of the Lands and Their Owners in Galloway. With Historical Sketches by Peter Handyside MacKerlie (1906)
"... from the Gaelic coire, a ravine, and bro, the Cymric or Welsh for lowland,
cultivated. airless OR AIRLIES. ... out of the ten merkland of airless, etc. ..."
3. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"... the muscular tissue of the heart, different parts of the lungs, and the diaphragm.
The lungs were displaced laterally, and airless, except at ..."
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