Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Free from rust.
  • adjective Unlikely to rust; not rustable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Free from rust; that will not rust.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Free from rust.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That does not rust; stainless.
  • adjective Without rust; unrusted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective without rust

Etymologies

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rust +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Still, I can't help hoping that the Man of Steel will remain rustless in his kryptonite tomb, that his virtue will remain a stainless legend, that in our time of greatest need an earthquake will set him free to rise again renewed like King Arthur from the grave and vanquish black-clad evil for us all.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • There, rustless and fresh as the day it was installed, was a bank of instruments; the rogue hunted among them until it found one that possessed a flexible membrane.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

  • And the second world where the ruins of a giant city had stood choked with jungle vegetation, where he had made a blowgun from tubes of rustless metal as a weapon gift for small winged men -- but were they men?

    The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958

  • A pan, a platter, or a solid board, as will be readily seen, is not so good for drying as a wooden frame of convenient size that has small slats or fine, rustless-wire netting, or screening, attached to the bottom.

    Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit Desserts; Canning and Drying; Jelly Making, Preserving and Pickling; Confections; Beverages; the Planning of Meals

  • And stacks of material -- sheet steel, deckplate, girders -- and contragravity lifters and construction machines, all left on jobs that were never finished, the bright rustless metal dulled by forty years of rain and windblown red dust.

    The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

  • That is to say, it must be unkinked, rustless, and unscored.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1919

  • _ That is to say, it must be unkinked, rustless, and unscored.

    The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition 1919

  • That is to say, it must be unkinked, rustless, and unscored.

    The Aeroplane Speaks 1917

  • Advertising, with its billboard message of rustless screens and co-educational turkish-baths, has done much to further the good cause, and a glance through the files of newspapers of seventy-five years ago, when the big news story of the day was played up in diamond type easily deciphered in a strong light with the naked eye, shows that news printing has not, to use a slang phrase, stood still.

    Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

  • I have roused my men from each Ulster glen in the glitter of rustless spear and shield.

    The Four Winds of Eirinn 1906

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