top-hatless

adjective

Without a top hat.

Opposite
top-hatted
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Meanings

adjectivetop-hatless (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareWithout a top hat.

    All the more shocking is Layton’s hairdo from years back, a wild mass of frizz atop his disturbingly top-hatless head.

    2012 September, Phil Theobald, “How to Become a Gentleman”, in Chris Slate, editor, Nintendo Power, number 282, San Francisco, Calif.: Future US, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 67, column 1
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    So little had the scene at the Courthouse been prearranged, that I had left my Ulster overcoat at the hotel, and was wearing a top hat which alone must have discovered me out of a wholly top-hatless community.

    1920, William O’Brien, “An Appeal to Cæsar (1889)”, in Evening Memories, Dublin; London: Maunsel and Co., →OCLC, page 363

    No, at this present crisis in Tokyo, I should have found myself top-hatless just the same, with the added bitterness of feeling that the stars in their courses had fought against me.

    1930 March 29, Arnold J[oseph] Toynbee, “Top-Hats and Chrysanthemums”, in The Nation and Athenæum, volume XLVI, number 26, London, →OCLC, page 891, column 1

    Antonyms: top-hatted

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveWithout a top hat.

Opposite
top-hatted

Origin

From top hat + -less.

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