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coverless

coverless adjective: without a cover or covers.

Adjective

coverless (not comparable)

  1. Without a cover or covers.
    • He took the coverless book from her hand. Chardenal's French primer.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
    • Beside the window the enormous bed was made up, with ragged blankets and a coverless bolster.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 4”, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia...

Origin of coverless

From cover + -less.

Words formed from coverless

Questions about coverless

What does coverless mean?
Coverless means without a cover or covers.
What part of speech is coverless?
Coverless is an adjective.

Words near coverless in the dictionary

  1. covering spaces
  2. covering the buckle
  3. covering the waterfront
  4. covering up
  5. coverings
  6. coverless
  7. coverlessness
  8. coverlet
  9. coverleted
  10. coverlets
  11. coverletted

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