🪑 No padding 💸 No safety net

cushionless

1 5.8

A seat with no soft padding for comfort

adjective
/ˈkʌʃənləs/

: sin cojín

She was posed sideways on some sort of cushionless banquette, perhaps even a slab of marble.

Examples

The chairs look commonplace, but long rusty nails stick up from their cushionless seats, making sitting down unthinkable.

Academic text (1993)
The cushionless bench was uncomfortable for the children after sitting for a long time.
She refused to sit on the cushionless metal chair, claiming it hurt her back.
After a few hours at the cushionless table, he wished he had brought a pad to sit on.

Antonyms

cushioned

8 3.4

With soft padding that makes it more comfortable and absorbs shocks

How Comfortable

cushiony

1 3.0

soft

557 1.0

padded

45 3.0

hard

631 1.0

bare

301 2.2

cushionless

1 5.8

Surface Forms

cushionless positive

Morphology

cushionless = cushion (transparent) = cushion + less

Standard productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without' applied to a concrete noun, so the physical sense is directly predictable from 'cushion'.

Etymology

Cushionless is made from cushion ('soft pad') and -less ('without'). Imagine sitting on a hard wooden bench with no soft pad, and you have the clear image of what cushionless means: having no cushion for comfort or support.