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dustless

dustless

2.9
Not making or having dust
  • adjective
  • /ˈdʌstləs/
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  • The artist used a dustless chalk to create her masterpiece, ensuring a clean working environment.

Examples

  • I'm just going to use a yardstick, A ruler, a pencil, and then just the regular dustless white chalk.

  • He preferred to work in a dustless lab to maintain the integrity of his experiments.

  • The new vacuum cleaner is designed to be dustless, making cleaning much easier and healthier.

Antonyms

dusty
100 1.0

Having a layer of dust that makes it look dirty

How Dusty

filthy
183 1.5
dusty
100 1.0
clean
∞ 1.0
dustless
2.9

Surface Forms

dustless positive

Morphology

dustless = dust (transparent) = dust + less

Standard adjectival formation with the productive negative suffix '-less' yields 'not producing or lacking dust', which is directly predictable from 'dust'.

Etymology

The word dustless is made of dust and -less, where -less means 'without', like in hopeless ('without hope') or careless ('without care'). So dustless simply means 'without dust', which is why it describes things that keep a place clean and the air clearer.