Dictionary

wineless en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Without wine.
   • Polemon in his work Against Timaios says that there are wineless sacrifices... 2008, Phillip Harding, The story of Athens: the fragments of the local chronicles of Attika:
   • 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

wined up · wineful

Deriveds

winelessness

Relateds

vineless