airless
2
4.7
- adjective
- /ˈɛr.ləs/
:
inrespirable
- The car looked like a jar draped with wet leaves on the outside and airless as a grave within.
- airless space
They were in a nearly airless heat baked container.
- They were in a nearly airless heat baked container.
Examples
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The airless chamber made it impossible for the scientists to conduct their experiments safely.
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On an airless world such as our moon, the radiative temperature of the sky dominates all other effects.
Blog text (5) -
Down in all that blue, his body dragged deeper and deeper into the airless depths.
Fiction book (2002) -
In the airless vacuum, there was no haze, no softening with distance.
Fiction book (2001) -
But there was no protection for a frail human body in the absolute cold and airless vacuum of the Yokohama's bridge in its present state.
Fiction book (1991) -
You are 26,000 miles from the nearest bus station... surrounded by an airless, irradiated vacuum.
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Collisions are one of the fundamental processes in the solar system, as the pockmarked surfaces of airless bodies demonstrate.
Academic text (1994) -
The reason conventional bombs are generally useless in space, and are thus a poor defense against incoming asteroids, is that most of space is an airless vacuum.
Academic text (2006) -
On the other side of that ceiling, she knew, was the grassy expanse of the Grand Plaza—or the bare dusty regolith of the Moon's airless surface.
Fiction book (2001) -
After hours of climbing, they reached the airless summit, where breathing became a struggle.
Synonyms
29
3.4
Too warm and without fresh air
1
5.1
Making it hard to breathe because the air is hot, close, or not fresh
1
6.3
A room with no fresh air moving in
Too large or not able to enter the lungs when breathed in
Material that does not let air through, making you feel hot and damp
Without the part of air that living things need to breathe
Antonyms
Compounds
How Deep
2
6.8
205
2.2
- Specialized
5
3.7
- Specialized
22
4.0
2
4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Airless is made of air and -less, where -less means 'without'. So an airless place has 'no' air at all, which makes breathing hard or impossible.