Without a greeting; lacking a welcoming address or friendly acknowledgment.
Compound of 'greeting' (from 'greet' plus '-ing') and the privative suffix '-less' (meaning without). This suffix '-less' is productive in English for creating opposites.
The '-less' suffix is one of English's most creative tools—'greetingless,' 'thoughtless,' 'helpless'—and speakers spontaneously create new ones like 'screenless' or 'maskless' for modern phenomena!
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