grassless
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- adjective
- /ˈɡræs.ləs/
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sin hierba
- "I saw them," he said, meaning the grassless spots.
- grassless yard
- grassless football field
- grassless lot
Examples
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Yuccas flower in sunlit spaces, live oaks streaked with moss hang over dark, grassless patches; here and there, mallows bloom redly.
Fiction book (1990) -
We watched the dirty water dance through the air and create an orange spot in the red clay of our grassless yard.
Fiction book (1994) -
There were no fences between buildings, just this great open space with its dead, grassless, red-clay face.
Fiction book (2000) -
But I couldn't believe there was a submarine buried in that ugly, grassless, treeless place.
Fiction book (2000) -
The next day, in the open air of the apartment house's grassless backyard, under, over, and around an empty clothesline, Danny juggles, and it is everything I ever dreamed.
Fiction book (1993) -
Shifting the soft white dust on grassless patches of earth, they searched for dirt daubers that hid there, detectable only by their flapping wings, while waiting an acceptable interval until the frightened frog could be set free.
Fiction book (1998) -
The children played on the dusty, grassless field during recess.
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After the drought, the once lush garden turned into a grassless expanse of dirt.
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The construction site was a large, grassless area filled with trucks and building materials.
Antonyms
How Grassy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Grassless is made of grass and the ending -less, which means 'without', just like in hopeless or careless. So grassless simply means 'without grass', a field or ground that has no grass on it.