meatless

English

Etymology

From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtləs/

Adjective

meatless (not comparable)

1. Without meat.
   • 1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:

     A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.

   • 1942, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 300. [Memo from Prime Minister Churchill to General Ismay dated April 3, 1942]

     Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?

Antonyms

• meatful

Derived terms

• meatless loaf

 

Translations

without meat

• Bulgarian: постен (bg) (posten)
• Estonian: lihata
• Finnish: lihaton (fi)
• German: fleischlos (de)
• Hungarian: hústalan (hu)
• Polish: jarski (pl) m, bezmięsny (pl) m
• Turkish: etsiz (tr)

Anagrams

• Malteses, mateless, tameless, teamless