Lacking in bounty, generosity, or abundance; barren or stingy.
From 'bounty' plus the suffix '-less' meaning without, creating an adjective meaning 'without bounty or generosity,' though it is rarely used in modern English.
A 'bountyless' land—imagine deserts or arctic tundras—shaped entire human societies; the Inuit and Bedouin developed remarkable cultures in places where nature offered the least.
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