Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without room or rooms; not affording space; contracted.

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

  • adjective Being without room or rooms.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without a room.

Etymologies

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room +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Adams accepted the hospitality of the sleeper, with deep gratitude, the more because his first struggle with a sleeping-car made him doubt the value—to him—of a Pullman civilisation; but he was even more grateful for the shelter of Mr. Evarts’s house in H Street at the corner of Fourteenth, where he abode in safety and content till he found rooms in the roomless village.

    The Press (1868) 1918

  • A vague remembrance of the well-known story how a man and his dog had arrived at the Granby Hotel, at Harrowgate, and been sent away roomless to the other and less patrician establishment, because, while he had a dog, he had not a servant; when, five minutes after such dismissal, came carriages and lackeys and an imperious valet, asking for his grace the

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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