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wineless

wineless adjective: without wine.

Adjective

wineless (not comparable)

  1. Without wine.
    • Jesus meets the felt needs of the poor such as turning water into wine as a service to the wineless...1982, Brojendra Nath Banerjee, Religious conversions in India
    • After the stolidity of my childhood—the affluent Midwest of new Cadillacs, Negro maids, and wineless six-o’clock dinners […]1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
    Antonyms:
    wineful, wined up

Antonyms of wineless

Origin of wineless

From Middle English wynelesse; equivalent to wine + -less.

Words formed from wineless

Questions about wineless

What does wineless mean?
Wineless means without wine.
What part of speech is wineless?
Wineless is an adjective.

Words near wineless in the dictionary

  1. winehouses
  2. Wineinger
  3. Wineingers
  4. wineland
  5. winelands
  6. wineless
  7. winelessness
  8. winelike
  9. winelist
  10. winelists
  11. winelore

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