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Definition: Airless |
AirlessAdjective1. Lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "airless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
Synonyms: AirlessSynonyms: close (adj), stuffy (adj), unaired (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Airless |
| English words defined with "airless": close ♦ fug ♦ stuffy ♦ unaired. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But in this almost airless world, what do they mean? (The Man Who Skied Down Everest; writing credit: Kyle Onstott; Jack Kirkland) | |
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| "Airless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Airless" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 53 | 46,657 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "airless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | benouend (alarming, burdensome, grave, onerous, oppressive, serious, stiffling, sultry), benoud (agitated, anxious, close, cramped, oppressive, stale, stiffling, sultry, troubled), bedompig (close, frowsy, stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i paajër (stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خلو من الهواء الطلق, خلو من الهواء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тих (breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, sleepy, slow, small, soft, stealthy, still, stilly, tearless, tranquil, under, uneventful), непроветрен (unventilated), задушен (leaden, muggy, oppressive, pockety, stewed, stuffy, unventilated), безвъздушен, безветрен (calm, windless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 空"不流通. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bezvìtrný (calm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zwoel (erotic, muggy, oppressive, stiffling, sultry), windstil (calm), verstikkend (oppressive, stiffling, sultry), luchtledig, drukkend (burdensome, heavy, muggy, onerous, oppressive, stiffling, sultry), broeierig (oppressive, stiffling, sultry), bladstil, benauwd (close, cramped, muggy, oppressive, stale, stiffling, sultry), bedompt (close, frowsy, stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | renfermé, privé d'air, étouffant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | luftlos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | χωρίσ αέρα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | levegõtlen (stuffy), áporodott (frouzy, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fuggy, fusty, stale, stuffy, vapid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ventilato (airy), Spruzzatura ad alta pressione, privo d'aria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | plooghagh, gyn aer, breen (close, draggy, oppressive, sultry, sweltry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airlessay abafado (anxious, busy, choky, close, fuggy, fusty, stuffy, suffocant, suffocating, sultry, thick), sem vento (windless), fechado (cabined, close, closed, close-mouthed, covered, fast, inmost, pentachord, shut, timid, wattled, wicker, windless). (various references) sufocant (choking, sticky, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, sultry), lipsit de aer, înãbuşitor (choking, oppressive, stifling, stuffy). (various references) безветренный (windless). (various references) bezvazdušan (anaerobic, vacuum). (various references) oprimido (downtrodden, oppressive, stale, stiffling, sultry). (various references) lufttom, kvav (close, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, muggy, stuffy, sultry). (various references) sakin (calm, citizen, comfortable, composed, composedly, dispassionate, domicilled, dweller, equal, even, even tempered, habitant, halcyon, hushed, imperturbable, in repose, indweller, inhabitant, inmate, laidback, local, nerveless, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, peaceful, philosophic, philosophical, placid, quiescent, quiet, reposeful, resident, sedate, serene, smooth, steady, still, tenant, tranquil, unperturbed, unruffled, untroubled), havasız (frowsty, fuggy, stuffy, unaired), durgun (bovine, calm, depressed, ditch water, ditchwater, flat, halcyon, in the doldrums, inactive, languid, lifeless, placid, quiescent, quiet, serene, settled, slack, sleepy, stagnant, standing, static, still, stock-still, tranquil, unruffled, untroubled, windless). (various references) тихий (calm, dormant, low, noiseless, peaceful, quiet, silent, soundless, still, stilly, under), задушливий (asphyxiant, choky, frowzy, fusty, muggy, smothery, suffocant, suffocating), безвітряний (breathless, calm), безповітряний, душний (choky, fuggy, pockety, smothery, stifling, stuffy). (various references) thiếu không khí lặng gió, không có không khí. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "airless": airlessness, airlessnesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "airless": hairless. (additional references) | |
Words containing "airless": hairlessness, hairlessnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Airless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aigles, ailers, ailiss, airees, airel, Airleys, Airlies, airres, arelles, argleses, ariels, aurels, aurlism, nairules, oarless. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "airless" (pronounced e"rlus) |
| 5 | e" r l u s | careless, hairless. |
| 4 | -r l u s | earless, fearless, peerless, scoreless, wireless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: resails, sailers, serails, serials. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: aisles, ariels, arises, lasers, lassie, raises, rassle, resail, sailer, serail, serais, serial. | |
-2 letters: aisle, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arses, arsis, earls, isles, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lases, lears, liars, liers, liras, rails, raise, rales, rases, reals, rials, riels, riles, rises, sails, sales, saris, seals, sears, serai, seral, sials, sires, sisal, slier. | |
-3 letters: ails. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: assailer, classier, glassier, hairless, rainless, realises, realisms, realists, reassail, revisals, salaries, salliers, saltiers, saltires, solarise. | |
+2 letters: assailers, brainless, dialysers, dispersal, earliness, earlships, espaliers, foresails, frailness, gasaliers, gaseliers, gasoliers, girasoles, glissader, grasslike, islanders, lamisters, larkiness, lavishers, misalters, mislayers, mislearns, moralises, pilasters, plaisters, polarises, psaltries, railbuses, realisers, reassails, reprisals, residuals, ruralises, salesgirl, sealeries, sensorial, seraglios, serialise, serialism, serialist, signalers, slaveries, slipwares, snarliest, solarised, solarises, solarizes, spiracles, splashier, trailless, valorises, wassailer, weariless. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 6C 65 73 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. .-. .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35758478718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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