doorless

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Having no door, for example an open wardrobe

adjective
/ˈdɔːrləs/

: sin puerta

After the renovation, the office featured doorless cubicles that encouraged open communication.
doorless room
doorless entrance
doorless car

Examples

Probably men feel differently, given the doorless urinals in men's rooms.

Academic text (2007)
The dog peered through the doorless car.

Fiction book (2001)
She notices a doorless jeep rushing to the stop sign on her left and eases into the intersection.

Fiction book (2002)
He felt as though he were being shoved forcibly down some gray, doorless corridor that went on and on as far as he could see.

Fiction book (1990)
He leaves the bedroom through the doorless doorway, and Taiesha's stunned middle finger scatters flakes of squashed emerald paint.

Fiction book (1995)
They walked through the doorless entrance, feeling the cool breeze on their faces.
The children played happily in the doorless room, completely unaware of the outside world.

Surface Forms

doorless positive

Morphology

doorless = door (transparent) = door + less

The meaning is directly derived from 'door' + the productive suffix '-less' meaning 'without', which a typical learner can infer.

Etymology

The word doorless is made from door and the suffix -less, where -less means 'without', like in hopeless or careless. So doorless simply means 'without a door', which is why we use it for an entrance, shower, or wardrobe that has no door.