meatless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈmiːtləs/
Etymology
From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without meat.
“Eating more plants and going meatless is a good way to preserve your health,” said Dr. Robert Graham, who is board certified in both internal and integrative medicine. […] Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”
2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN: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]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:
Antonyms
Deriveds
meatlessness · meatlessly · meatless loaf
Synonyms
Translations (10)
tr etsiz (without meat) · ug ئەتسىز (without meat) · et lihata (without meat) · pl jarski (without meat) · hu hústalan (without meat) · fi lihaton (without meat) · pl bezmięsny (without meat) · bg постен (without meat) · de fleischlos (without meat) · ug گۆشسىز (without meat)