Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Destitute of heat; cold.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of heat; cold.

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  • adjective Without heat.

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  • adjective without generating heat

Etymologies

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heat +‎ -less

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Examples

  • It didn't feel like spring when I recently drove up into the wolds near Pocklington, with snow-sprinkled verges still not thawed after an afternoon of winter sun – a low, heatless sun that gave rise to long shadows.

    Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

  • Nature decayed around me, and the sun became heatless; rain and snow poured around me; mighty rivers were frozen; the surface of the earth was hard and chill, and bare, and I found no shelter.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • Suddenly, as he worked, he had an abrupt sense of heatless force pressing down on him, as if giant hands, impossibly heavy, were thrusting down on his shoulders.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • I think you are now the official expert on refreshing summer food after 64 heatless entries in your event!!!

    Lemon Zucchini Bread Laura 2008

  • The sun seemed remote and heatless, the explosions rattled his teeth together, he felt the earth vibrations in his boots.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • “The people have been requested to have heatless days, meatless days, wheatless days,” Wayne Wheeler said in a letter to President Wilson.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • Reading his “contract on america”, then the inverview, I never expected to see such die-hard, heatless, dogmatic, indomitable cluelessness about the workings of Society.

    Newt Gingrich Answers Your Questions - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • I caught it, glowing but heatless, the last story to ever cross that field, losing its fire like every story we'd tried to bring home from that dump.

    Prom Date 2010

  • “The people have been requested to have heatless days, meatless days, wheatless days,” Wayne Wheeler said in a letter to President Wilson.

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

  • While you say we can't afford to reform health insurance, more than fifty million Americans (at the latest count) live without it, go hungry or heatless or bankrupt without it, and in thousands of cases literally die without it.

    James Heffernan: Roadblocking the Ambulance of Health Care Reform 2009

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