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coatless

coatless

1 3.0
Not wearing an outer jacket
  • adjective
  • /ˈkoʊtləs/
translation icon : sin abrigo
  • She threw the fork on the stove and slammed out the door, coatless.
  • coatless man

Examples

  • He stood coatless on the balcony, feeling the cool evening air against his bare arms.

  • What was the man doing coatless when it was so cold out?

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The three of us climbed out and bent, shivering and coatless, into the night.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • She didn't cross the road to help her neighbor or give her coat to a shivering pilgrim, for one of them would still be coatless.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • And every spring, bodies would thaw out of snowbanks all along the Hungarian border, coatless, shoeless, gold fillings wrenched from their mouths.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Don't ever come back here, you creep, and take what you paid for," pushing the bag of groceries toward Gould with his foot, "That's the last you'll ever get from us," and Gould kicked the bag and said, "Stick it you know where," and the coatless man said, "Up our asses?"

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The children played coatless in the snow, laughing as the cold air nipped at their skin.

  • Despite the chill in the air, she bravely walked coatless to the store, determined to enjoy the fresh breeze.

Synonyms

jacketless
vscoatless
3.9

Not wearing a jacket

refers to lacking a typically longer outer garment

Antonyms

1 1.0

Wearing special clothes for an occasion, for example a party

How Dressed

bundled-up
8 3.1
well-dressed
29 2.4
dressed
1 1.0
underdressed
5 4.2
coatless
1 3.0
naked
  • NSFW
982 1.0

Surface Forms

coatless positive

Morphology

coatless = coat (transparent) = coat + less

A straightforward negative derivation from 'coat' meaning 'not wearing or lacking a coat', directly inferable by learners.

Etymology

Coatless joins coat ('outer garment') and -less ('without'), so coatless literally means 'without a coat' and describes a person who is not wearing one.