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cushionless

cushionless

5.8
A seat with no soft padding for comfort
  • adjective
  • /ˈkʌʃənləs/
translation icon : 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
3.4

With soft padding that makes it more comfortable and absorbs shocks

How Comfortable

cushiony
1 3.0
soft
552 1.0
padded
1 3.0
hard
764 1.0
bare
217 2.2
cushionless
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.