seatless

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adjective

Lacking a seat.

“August 17, 1890, George Bernard Shaw, letter to William Archer We were much disheartened when we arrived and found ourselves in the middle of a lamenting, seatless, lodgingless horde of English and American trippers […]”

OriginProto-Germanic *lausaz ← Proto-Indo-European *lewHs- ← English seat →
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Meanings

adjectiveseatless (not comparable)
  1. not comparableLacking a seat.

    August 17, 1890, George Bernard Shaw, letter to William Archer We were much disheartened when we arrived and found ourselves in the middle of a lamenting, seatless, lodgingless horde of English and American trippers […]

    2 more examples

    My companions rose one by one and emptied their nocturnal accumulations of urine into the seatless toilet.

    1970, William Furber, Make Love, Not Water, page 141

    Three weeks ago today, Progressive Conservative MPP Laurie Scott announced that she was resigning her seat […] to make way for her seatless party leader, John Tory.

    2009 January 30, “Call the by-election”, in Toronto Star

Origin

  1. Englishseat
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  4. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  5. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  6. Englishseatless

From seat + -less.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

sateless
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APA

seatless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seatless

MLA

“seatless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seatless. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “seatless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/seatless.

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