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😶 Without eating breakfast 🏨 No breakfast included
breakfastless

breakfastless

1 5.7
Not having eaten breakfast
  • adjective
: sin desayuno
  • He then stomped, breakfastless, out of their house.

Examples

  • Feeling rushed, he reluctantly left home breakfastless and planned to eat at the café nearby.

  • After waking up late, she headed to work breakfastless, hoping to grab a snack later.

  • They went on their hike breakfastless, excited for the meal waiting at the top.

Surface Forms

breakfastless positive

Morphology

breakfastless = breakfast (transparent) = breakfast + less

Meaning follows directly from 'breakfast' + the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without'.

Etymology

Breakfastless is built from the parts break and fast because breakfast is the meal that 'breaks' a 'fast'. The ending -less means 'without', so breakfastless means 'without breakfast', or having not eaten the morning meal.