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meatless

meatless

8 2.0
Food that does not contain meat
  • adjective
  • /ˈmiːtləs/
translation icon : sin carne
  • And for your meatless burger empire, the choice remains yours.
  • meatless meal

You can put it in tacos, you can make meatless meatballs and pasta.

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Examples

  • My vegetarian friends always love this meal of twelve meatless dishes served on Christmas Eve.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Wigilia, the most important of the three in terms of tradition, is marked by its 11-course meal of meatless dishes.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • This one's completely meatless and you will not even know the difference.

  • Including my husband, who is not a fan of meatless nights at our house!

    Blog text (20)
  • Today, I am including a few great meatless meals our family enjoys.

    Blog text (1)
  • I am not vegan, but my family eats meatless meals several days during the week.

    Blog text (11)
  • So for instance, in a lot of the colleges at Oxford, they have like meatless Mondays in the halls, right?

  • You can put it in tacos, you can make meatless meatballs and pasta.

  • The Tofurky Tuesdays campaign promotes going meatless for one day each week for positive personal and environmental change.

    Blog text (7)
  • This savory dish is totally meatless, yet surprisingly filling and delicious.

Synonyms

vegetarian
vsmeatless
73 2.3

Food that does not contain meat or fish

excludes meat but may still include fish or seafood

Antonyms

17 3.4

Containing meat or tasting like meat

How Plant-Based

vegan
91 3.8
vegetarian
73 2.3
meatless
8 2.0
meaty
17 3.4

Surface Forms

meatless positive

Morphology

meatless = meat (transparent) = meat + less

Formed by the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', so the meaning is directly derived from 'meat'.

Etymology

The word meatless is simply meat + -less, where -less means 'without', as in homeless or hopeless. So a meatless meal is one 'without meat'.