Dinnerless
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Dinnerless is an adjective meaning Without dinner.
Meaning
Without dinner.
Example Sentences
Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.
The Parents and Citizens Coronation Lunch became so speechy it ended up dinnerless.
So reduced were their finances, and exhausted their credit, that the acting managers, as they were called, were once obliged to repair to the theatre on the evening of a play, dinnerless.
1944, Frederick Niven, The Transplanted, Toronto: Collins, Part 2, Chapter 7, He had been compelled to sit at a table that was not “serviced” by Marion. Had he waited till a place was free at one of her tables he might have gone dinnerless as the doors would soon be closing.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mealless, supperless, lunchless, luncheonless, dessertless, breakfastless.
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