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# airless

«airless» in Mova's school dictionary: **With no fresh air moving; stuffy and hard to breathe in:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (airless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) With no fresh air moving; stuffy and hard to breathe in: «an airless room». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#m1)

2) With no air at all: «the airless surface of the Moon». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#m2)

3) (of weather) Very still, with no wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons, the Moon is airless, so there is no wind, no sound and no breathing without a spacesuit. In everyday life an airless room needs a window opened. In stories an airless place feels hot, heavy or scary.

### examples

- The classroom was hot and airless, so we opened the windows. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x1)
- The Moon is airless, so astronauts carry oxygen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x2)
- It was an airless summer night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x3)
- The cellar was dark and airless. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x4)
- Sound cannot travel in airless space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x5)
- We felt sleepy in the airless bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x6)
- Now, that night happened to be very hot and airless, and the prince, after vainly trying to rest, at length got up and went to the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/#x7)

### note

The suffix -less means «without»: airless = without air. Do not confuse with «airtight» (no air can get in or out). Opposite: airy, breezy.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «airless» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/airless/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.