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meatless

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈmiːtləs/
  • rhymes with -iːtləs
  • CMU ARPABET: M IY1 T L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Without meat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unmeated

Antonyms: meatful

2

adjective

Meaning 2

lacking meat

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • meatless days

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: meaty

History

Etymology

From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less.

Across languages

Translations

10 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: постен (posten) — without meat
  • Estonian: lihata — without meat
  • Finnish: lihaton — without meat
  • German: fleischlos — without meat
  • Hungarian: hústalan — without meat
  • Polish: jarski — without meat
  • Polish: bezmięsny — without meat
  • Turkish: etsiz — without meat
  • Uyghur: ئەتسىز (etsiz) — without meat
  • Uyghur: گۆشسىز (göshsiz) — without meat