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washless

washless adjective: without a wash, or an act of washing.

Adjective

washless (not comparable)

  1. Without a wash, or an act of washing.
    • Seventy soapless, washless days.1918, Donald Baxter MacMillan, Four Years in the White North, page 260
  2. That does not involve washing.
    • Beautiful women never use soap and water on their faces, since they find they can secure and retain complexions of sparkling beauty by the new washless method — the method that cleans out the clogged pores and keeps them clean.1912, Theatre Magazine, volume 16, page 23
  3. That does not need to be washed.
    • There are now washless dishes, painless razors, painless shoes, painless corsets, prepared soups, painless photographs (it used to give you a stiff neck for three days to have your picture taken)[…]1924, Don Herold, So Human, page 40

Origin of washless

From wash + -less.

Questions about washless

What does washless mean?
Washless means without a wash, or an act of washing.
What part of speech is washless?
Washless is an adjective.

Words near washless in the dictionary

  1. Washkos
  2. washland
  3. washlands
  4. washleather
  5. washleathers
  6. washless
  7. washlet
  8. washlets
  9. washline
  10. washlines
  11. washload

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