airless
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˈɛr.ləs/
- The car looked like a jar draped with wet leaves on the outside and airless as a grave within.
- airless space
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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
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5.1
Making it hard to breathe because the air is hot, close, or not fresh
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3.4
Too warm and without fresh air
1
6.3
A room with no fresh air moving in
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7.2
Without the part of air that living things need to breathe
1
7.1
Material that does not let air through, making you feel hot and damp
Too large or not able to enter the lungs when breathed in
Antonyms
Compounds
How Deep
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6.8
230
2.2
- Specialized
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3.7
- Specialized
23
4.0
6
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.