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washless en · ADJ

Etymology

From wash + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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. (not-comparable) 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. (not-comparable) 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: