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meatless

/ˈmiːtləs/

meatless adjective: without meat.

Adjective

meatless (not comparable)

  1. Without meat.
    • A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
    • Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?1942, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 300. [Memo from Prime Minister Churchill to General Ismay dated April 3, 1942]
    Synonyms:
    unmeated, dry
    Antonyms:
    meatful

meatless meaning in Tamil

meatless in Tamil

இறைச்சியற்ற, இல்லாத, புலாலற்ற, மாமிசமற்ற, தசைப்பிடிப்பு, இச்சொல்

Examples of meatless in a sentence

  • Tuesday is meatless and also is eatless, for we will be closed on Tuesdays.”
  • Wheatless Wednesday and meatless Tuesday have been supplemented with an icecreamless Thursday by San Francisco.
  • Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”

All 10 example sentences with meatless

Synonyms of meatless

Antonyms

Origin of meatless

From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less.

Words formed from meatless

Phrases with meatless

Questions about meatless

What does meatless mean?
Meatless means without meat.
What is meatless in Tamil?
Meatless in Tamil is இறைச்சியற்ற, இல்லாத, புலாலற்ற. See Meatless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is meatless?
Meatless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce meatless?
Meatless is pronounced /ˈmiːtləs/.

Words near meatless in the dictionary

  1. meatiest
  2. meatilicious
  3. meatily
  4. meatiness
  5. meatish
  6. meatless
  7. meatless loaf
  8. meatless loaves
  9. meatlessloaf
  10. meatlessly
  11. meatlessness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meatless (page history and authors); meatless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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