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honeyless

honeyless adjective: without honey.

Adjective

honeyless (not comparable)

  1. Without honey.
    • Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
      And leave them honeyless.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • They might have been, in the all-permeating glory on their hill terrace, with the sapphire-circled plain around—they might have been the two youngest citizens of Paradise, circled in for ever from bleak honeyless winter, bleak honeyless hearts.1917, Mary Webb, chapter 11, in Gone to Earth, New York: Dutton, page 99

Origin of honeyless

From honey + -less.

Questions about honeyless

What does honeyless mean?
Honeyless means without honey.
What part of speech is honeyless?
Honeyless is an adjective.

Words near honeyless in the dictionary

  1. honeyholes
  2. honeying
  3. honeying around
  4. honeying up
  5. honeyish
  6. honeyless
  7. honeylike
  8. honeylocust
  9. honeylocusts
  10. honeymaker
  11. honeymaking

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