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showerless

showerless adjective: without a shower (bathroom fitting).

Adjective

showerless (not comparable)

  1. Without a shower (bathroom fitting).
    • We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars.1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 148
  2. Without taking a shower (type of wash).
    • We had to go showerless all week during the water outage.
  3. (dated) Rainless.

Origin of showerless

From shower + -less.

Words formed from showerless

Questions about showerless

What does showerless mean?
Showerless means without a shower (bathroom fitting).
What part of speech is showerless?
Showerless is an adjective.

Words near showerless in the dictionary

  1. showeriness
  2. showering
  3. showering down
  4. showering up
  5. showerings
  6. showerless
  7. showerlessness
  8. showerlike
  9. showerproof
  10. showerproofed
  11. showerproofing

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