seatless en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree English seat Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English seatless From seat + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Lacking a seat.
My companions rose one by one and emptied their nocturnal accumulations of urine into the seatless toilet.
1970, William Furber, Make Love, Not Water, page 141:Three weeks ago today, Progressive Conservative MPP Laurie Scott announced that she was resigning her seat […] to make way for her seatless party leader, John Tory.
2009 January 30, “Call the by-election”, in Toronto Star:August 17, 1890, George Bernard Shaw, letter to William Archer We were much disheartened when we arrived and found ourselves in the middle of a lamenting, seatless, lodgingless horde of English and American trippers […]