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carpetless

carpetless adjective: not carpeted.

Adjective

carpetless (not comparable)

  1. Not carpeted.
    • Near-synonym: rugless
    • Presently a sudden silence fell upon the grumbling audience, and everybody's eyes sought a single point--the wide, empty, carpetless stage.1883, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Life on the Mississippi, Part 9
    Synonyms:
    uncarpeted, rugless

Examples of carpetless in a sentence

  • The little bare feet made no noise on the carpetless floor.1898, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Giant Scissors:
  • His parlor was dingy and carpetless; one could smell distinctly there the vow of poverty.1907, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:

Synonyms of carpetless

Origin of carpetless

From carpet + -less.

Words formed from carpetless

Questions about carpetless

What does carpetless mean?
Carpetless means not carpeted.
How do you use carpetless in a sentence?
The little bare feet made no noise on the carpetless floor.
What part of speech is carpetless?
Carpetless is an adjective.

Words near carpetless in the dictionary

  1. carpetimycins
  2. carpeting
  3. carpetings
  4. carpetlayer
  5. carpetlayers
  6. carpetless
  7. carpetlessness
  8. carpetlike
  9. carpetmaker
  10. carpetmakers
  11. carpetmaking

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