Definitions

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  • adjective rare Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.

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  • adjective Devoid of warmth.

Etymologies

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warmth +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The warmthless sun slid slowly toward the treetops, while a handful of thin clouds drifted high to the north.

    The Eye of the World Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1990

  • So they talked as they watched and waited, and the light grew, and somewhere behind the lowering banks of clouds in the east the sun had risen, and all the land and sea lay cold and warmthless and forlorn.

    Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

  • Through the woods the level, brilliant, warmthless rays ran like wild-fire, turning each dead, brilliant leaf to a wisp of incandescent flame, and tingeing the air with an evanescent ruby radiance against which the slim young boles stood black and stark.

    The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

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