fireless

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having no fire burning, or operating without an open flame

   The fireless hearth made the abandoned room feel colder.

A transparent compound of fire + -less, the Old English-derived suffix meaning 'without.' Fireless can describe a grate or hearth in which no fire burns, as well as a device or process designed to work without an open flame.

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