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grainless

grainless adjective: without grain.

Adjective

grainless (not comparable)

  1. Without grain.
    • grainless silage
  2. Free from grainy texture or appearance.
    • making grainless enlargements1934, Popular Science, volume 125, number 4, page 78
    • Highlights start blocking up and shadows turn to featureless black far sooner than on normal films — but the shadows are a very lovely black, because shadow areas of the two new films are clear and grainless.1973 January, Popular Mechanics, volume 139, number 1, page 52

Origin of grainless

From grain + -less. Piecewise doublet of cornless.

Words formed from grainless

Questions about grainless

What does grainless mean?
Grainless means without grain.
What part of speech is grainless?
Grainless is an adjective.

Words near grainless in the dictionary

  1. graining up
  2. grainings
  3. grainish
  4. grainland
  5. grainlands
  6. grainless
  7. grainlessness
  8. grainlike
  9. grainline
  10. grainlines
  11. grains

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