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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Emitting or containing little or no smoke.
  • adjective Free from the use of smoking tobacco or from the smoke generated by such use.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having, emitting, or causing little or no smoke: as, smokeless powder.

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

  • adjective Making or having no smoke.

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

  • adjective Without smoke.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective emitting or containing little or no smoke

Etymologies

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smoke +‎ -less

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