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rationless

rationless adjective: without rations.

Adjective

rationless (not comparable)

  1. Without rations.
    • The wagons stood out in the hot sun until the mush fermented and soured, and had to be thrown away, while we went rationless to bed, and rose the next day with more than usually empty stomachs[…]1879, John McElroy, Andersonville

Origin of rationless

From ration + -less. Piecewise doublet of ratioless and reasonless.

Questions about rationless

What does rationless mean?
Rationless means without rations.
What part of speech is rationless?
Rationless is an adjective.

Words near rationless in the dictionary

  1. rationes
  2. rationes decidendi
  3. rationes formales
  4. rationing
  5. rationings
  6. rationless
  7. rationment
  8. rations
  9. ratios
  10. ratis
  11. Ratisbon

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