Breadless

/ˈbrɛdləs/ adjective

Definition

Without bread, or lacking bread; also metaphorically, without the means to live or eat.

Etymology

Compound of bread + -less suffix (meaning without), following standard English word-formation rules.

Kelly Says

The word 'breadless' is genuinely dark—in literature and historical contexts, it describes not just a missing food but a desperate poverty, a person's complete destitution.

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