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showerless en · ADJ

Etymology

From shower + -less.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) 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. (not-comparable) Without taking a shower (type of wash).
   • We had to go showerless all week during the water outage.
3. (dated, not-comparable) Rainless.

Deriveds

showerlessness

Translations (1)

fi suihkuton (without shower)