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dinnerless

dinnerless adjective: without dinner.

Adjective

dinnerless (not comparable)

  1. Without dinner.
    • But the King coming with the main of his Army to the relief of Tisaphernes, fell upon the Grecians Camp, and rifled it, yet when they returned from the pursuit, they recovered it, and beat the King out again, and lodged Supperless in it that night, as well as Dinnerless the day before.1675, Samuel Clarke, “The Life and Death of Artaxerxes Mnemon”, in The Lives & Deaths of Most of Those Eminent Persons Who by Their Virtue and Valour Obtained the Sirnames of Magni, London: W.B, page...
    • So reduced were their finances, and exhausted their credit, that the acting managers, as they were called, were once obliged to repair to the theatre on the evening of a play, dinnerless.1788, Robert Hitchcock, chapter 10, in An Historical View of the Irish Stage, volume 1, Dublin, page 157

Examples of dinnerless in a sentence

  • Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 110”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers...
  • The Parents and Citizens Coronation Lunch became so speechy it ended up dinnerless.1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 94:

Origin of dinnerless

From dinner + -less.

Words formed from dinnerless

Questions about dinnerless

What does dinnerless mean?
Dinnerless means without dinner.
How do you use dinnerless in a sentence?
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
What part of speech is dinnerless?
Dinnerless is an adjective.

Words near dinnerless in the dictionary

  1. dinnerette
  2. dinnerettes
  3. dinnering
  4. dinnerladies
  5. dinnerlady
  6. dinnerless
  7. dinnerlessness
  8. dinnerlike
  9. dinnerly
  10. dinnermate
  11. dinnermates

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