playless

English

Etymology

play +‎ -less

Adjective

playless (not comparable)

1. Devoid of play (recreational activities).
2. Without plays (theatrical works).
   • 1976, Susan Sontag, editor, Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings, page xliii:

     Despite his repeated insistence that the theater should dispense with plays, his own work in the theater was far from playless.

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