Foodless
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Foodless is an adjective meaning (rare) Lacking food; without food.
Meaning
(rare) Lacking food; without food.
Example Sentences
In 1938-1939, while I may have been no better off in time than in 1954, I should at least have had the use of a Pullman car in which to obtain a meal, instead of having to spend over 2½ hr. on a foodless and drinkless journey of no more than 77½ miles.
c. 1807, William Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas in Blake: Complete Poems, edited by W. H. Stevenson, Routledge, 3rd edition, 2007, p. 321, lines 187-8, Why does the raven cry aloud & no eye pities her? / Why fall the sparrow & the robin in the foodless winter?
You have spent your last eighty centimes on half a litre of milk, and are boiling it over the spirit lamp. While it boils a bug runs down your forearm; you give the bug a flick with your nail, and it falls, plop! straight into the milk. There is nothing for it but to throw the milk away and go foodless.
Synonyms for foodless
Depending on context, synonyms include malnourished.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include malnourished, wilds, breadless, nutritionless, hungerless, mealless.
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