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gravyless

gravyless adjective: without gravy.

Adjective

gravyless (not comparable)

  1. Without gravy.
    • The roast dinner was gravyless and dry.
    • The punishments for negligence were varied and made as far as possible to suit the case of the delinquent, a butterless, gravyless or syrupless breakfast being the usual consequence of failure to be up in time.1899 July 13, Mrs. A[lexander] J[effrey] M’Kelway [i.e., Lavinia Rutherford McKelway], “Children as Church Members. […]”, in A. J. McKelway, editor, Presbyterian Standard, volume XLI, number 27...

Origin of gravyless

From gravy + -less.

Questions about gravyless

What does gravyless mean?
Gravyless means without gravy.
What part of speech is gravyless?
Gravyless is an adjective.

Words near gravyless in the dictionary

  1. Gravy SEALs
  2. gravy train
  3. gravy trains
  4. gravy-eyed
  5. gravying
  6. gravyless
  7. gravylike
  8. Grawe
  9. Grawes
  10. Grawin Opal Fields
  11. grawl

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