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jacketless

jacketless

3.9
Not wearing a jacket
  • adjective
  • /ˈdʒækɪtləs/
translation icon : sin chaqueta
  • He decided to attend the casual gathering jacketless, opting for a simple t-shirt instead.

Examples

  • Nacho came out jacketless, wearing his shades.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • My most cherished memory of loving him was seeing him, jacketless, tie flapping, running out into the snow under the picture window to scatter bird seed so he could teach me the names of the birds: scissortail swallow, junco, grackle.

    Academic text (2001)
  • On warm days, many people prefer to go jacketless, enjoying the fresh air.

  • Since it was a sunny afternoon, she felt comfortable walking jacketless along the beach.

Synonyms

coatless
vsjacketless
1 3.0

Not wearing an outer jacket

is about missing a shorter outer garment instead of a long one
unjacketed
vsjacketless
6.9

Has no protective cover, like wires or bullets

is the lack of a specific short outer garment rather than general covering

Antonyms

5 4.2

Covered with a protective outer layer, for example cables or pipes

1.2

Covered by a layer like snow or leaves

How Protected

sheathed
5.8
jacketed
5 4.2
clothed
1.2
jacketless
3.9
unprotected
28 2.9

Surface Forms

jacketless positive

Morphology

jacketless = jacket (transparent) = jacket + less

Formed by the noun 'jacket' plus the productive suffix '-less', meaning 'without a jacket', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Jacketless comes from jacket, a short coat, and -less meaning 'without', so it means 'without a jacket', like someone wearing no coat.