Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no thirst.

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  • adjective Devoid of thirst; not thirsty.

Etymologies

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thirst +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Symptoms ever changing. thirstless, peevish, and chilly.

    Nightmare Advice on Allergies Steve Carper 2008

  • For this reason unlimited time is undecaying and immortal, painless and hungerless, thirstless and undisturbed; for ever and ever no one will be able to overpower it or make it not all-over-ruling in his own affairs.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • The American desert has made him just as it has made the thirstless cactus and the desert wolf.

    The Desert Valley Jackson Gregory 1912

  • There they lay until the sun declined far enough to lose a little of his power to scorch, and the camels bubbled to one another, thirstless, unwearied, dissatisfied, as the universal way of camels is, kneeling in

    Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Braja Babu was one of the most enthusiastic of these blood-thirstless

    My Reminiscences Rabindranath Tagore 1901

  • • If the nausea is pronounced • Patient is thirstless • Pain felt in bones

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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