airless

air +‎ -less

• (UK) IPA^(key): /eə(ɹ).ləs/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)ləs

airless (comparative more airless, superlative most airless)

1. Lacking or being without air.
2. Lacking air circulation.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

3. With air that is stale.
4. (medicine) Suffering from asphyxia.
5. (figurative) Stifling; dead; lacking vitality or excitement.
   • 2012 November 8, Scott Tobias, “Memento’s puzzle structure hides big twists and bigger profundities”, in The AV Club‎:

     The worst that can—and has—been said about Memento is that it’s an airless gimmick, visually undistinguished, and not even all that sophisticated when the puzzle pieces are finally put together.

• airlessly
• airlessness

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