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glassless

glassless

1 6.3
Having no glass in a window or door
  • adjective
translation icon : sin cristal
  • Gently, silently but for the sound of our exhaled breaths splashing on the ceiling, we glide through a series of doorways devoid of doors and propel ourselves through a glassless window.
  • a glassless window

Examples

  • As the storm approached, the glassless windows rattled in the wind.

  • Stores are boarded up, windows are glassless, and walls are graffitied.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Hey guys, I invented a revolutionary glassless ND filter that.

    Blog text (29)
  • Once the tourniquet stopped his bleeding, they tried to crawl out the now glassless front window.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • She watched Ray through the glassless window in the living room as he talked about the Million Man March, acting out with his hands and arms the emotional impact of the event and what it had meant to him.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • Her skeletal body was silhouetted in the moonlight of a glassless window.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Ducking through one of these glassless apertures, she breathed a sigh of relief.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • It was roofless, open to the vast arc of sky floating above it like a great canopy of blue, and the glassless windows were giant arches flung against that empty sky.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • A hundred feet below the surface, my colleague Larry Murphy and I entered through glassless windows much more forbidding than the ones in the Elephant Butte foundry and felt our way cautiously through murky water.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The abandoned house had many glassless windows, letting in the cold air.

Synonyms

unglazed
vsglassless
1 6.2

Windows or doors that do not have glass

is the general term for lacking transparent panes in such items
unglassed
vsglassless
7.7

Not covered with glass, for example a window or painting

focuses on simple absence of glass rather than finishing or covering

How Attractive

shop window
  • UK
6 2.0
glassless
1 6.3

Surface Forms

glassless positive

Morphology

glassless = glass (transparent) = glass + less

The meaning is directly derived from 'glass' and the suffix '-less', indicating the absence of glass.

Etymology

Glassless is simply made from glass and the ending -less, where -less means 'without', like in hopeless. So glassless means 'without glass', used for a window or frame that has no glass.