rationless

English

Etymology

From ration +‎ -less.[1] Piecewise doublet of ratioless and reasonless.

Adjective

rationless (not comparable)

  1. Without rations.
    • 1879, John McElroy, Andersonville:
      The wagons stood out in the hot sun until the mush fermented and soured, and had to be thrown away, while we went rationless to bed, and rose the next day with more than usually empty stomachs […]

References

  1. ^ “rationless, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.