different between mealless vs meatless

English

Etymology

meal +? -less

Adjective

mealless (not comparable)

1. Without a meal.
   • 1994, Gerald Handel, Gail G. Whitchurch, The psychosocial interior of the family (page 617)

     One afternoon Laura damaged some furniture, and Mr. Sherman prescribed as her punishment a mealless evening.

Anagrams

• maleless

English

Etymology

From Middle English meteles, from Old English metel?as (“foodless”), equivalent to meat +? -less.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?tl?s/

Adjective

meatless (not comparable)

1. Without meat.
   • 1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

     A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.

   • 1942, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 300. [Memo from Prime Minister Churchill to General Ismay dated April 3, 1942]

     Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?

Antonyms

• meatful

Translations

Anagrams

• Malteses, mateless, tameless, teamless