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# airless

adjective (airless)

«airless» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. With no fresh air moving; stuffy and hard to breathe in: «an airless room». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#m1)
2. With no air at all: «the airless surface of the Moon». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#m2)
3. (of weather) Very still, with no wind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science lessons, the Moon is airless, so there is no wind, no sound and no breathing without a spacesuit. In everyday life an airless room needs a window opened. In stories an airless place feels hot, heavy or scary.

### Examples

- The classroom was hot and airless, so we opened the windows. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x1)
- The Moon is airless, so astronauts carry oxygen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x2)
- It was an airless summer night. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x3)
- The cellar was dark and airless. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x4)
- Sound cannot travel in airless space. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x5)
- We felt sleepy in the airless bus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x6)
- Now, that night happened to be very hot and airless, and the prince, after vainly trying to rest, at length got up and went to the window. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x7)

### Note

The suffix -less means «without»: airless = without air. Do not confuse with «airtight» (no air can get in or out). Opposite: airy, breezy.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «airless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«airless» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/airless.html) on Mova free.