pleatless

6.3

Smooth and flat with no folded fabric, like a skirt or trousers

adjective
/ˈplit.ləs/

: sin pliegues

The dress was pleatless, giving it a sleek and modern appearance.

Examples

Fashionable folk in New York might be wearing single-breasted suits and pleatless pants, but Matt Jenkins was the president of the First (and only) Bank of Jasmine, Oklahoma, and fashions for bankers were what he said they were.

Fiction book (1992)
Weeramekin: Because pleatless pants would be so much better.

Blog text (19)
Two things: 1) it's sort of the principle of the thing, and 2) he has an unusual pants size, and so it's tricky to find pants in his size at all, much less a pleatless clone of an existing pair of pants.

Blog text (19)
She bought a pair of pleatless trousers for a streamlined look.
He prefers pleatless shirts because they are easier to iron and look neater.

Synonyms

creaseless

vspleatless

1 4.6

A fabric that stays smooth and free of wrinkles

focuses on absence of sewn folds not only lack of creases

uncreased

vspleatless

3.5

Smooth with no folds or wrinkles

refers specifically to having no sewn folds rather than just no creases

unfurrowed

vspleatless

8.2

A surface that is smooth and even with no lines or wrinkles

means absence of sewn folds specifically rather than only lacking grooves

Antonyms

wrinkled

34 1.5

Having small lines on skin or cloth

pleated

1 3.3

Cloth that has many narrow folds, like a skirt or curtain

How Pleated

gathered

2.2

pleated

1 3.3

ruffled

1 3.4

pleatless

6.3

Surface Forms

pleatless positive

Morphology

pleatless = pleat (transparent) = pleat + less

Meaning is directly derived from the noun 'pleat' plus the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without'.

Etymology

The word pleatless comes from pleat ('fold') and the ending -less ('without'). So pleatless simply means 'without folds' and describes clothing that is smooth and has no sewn folds.