Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without shade or shelter from the light, heat, or the like: as, shadeless streets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being without shade; not shaded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
shade :exposed , notsheltered from thesun . - adjective Without shades of
colour .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yes, you can stand in front of your shadeless window for 15 minutes as soon as you roll out of bed.
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Relief efforts -- which are absolutely essential -- are ongoing in Port-au-Prince's tent cities and the ramshackle camps that have sprouted along the shadeless hillsides outside the capital.
Eric Sorensen: Haiti's Future Hinges on New Ideas, Sustainable Agriculture and the Rural Environment Eric Sorensen 2011
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Relief efforts -- which are absolutely essential -- are ongoing in Port-au-Prince's tent cities and the ramshackle camps that have sprouted along the shadeless hillsides outside the capital.
Eric Sorensen: Haiti's Future Hinges on New Ideas, Sustainable Agriculture and the Rural Environment Eric Sorensen 2011
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Most of the rooms were only partly furnished now yet seemed crowded, for there were cartons and movers 'barrels amid the furniture, shadeless lamps, mirrors and wall hangings and stacks of leatherbound books unread for decades.
The Devil's Bedpost 2010
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We caromed down through a pueblito of little concrete houses painted in pastels, wooden huts with thatch roofs, a whitewashed school, and a full-sized shadeless basketball court.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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As he had done throughout the house, Liam had placed an inexpensive, shadeless table lamp in the center of the room.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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As he had done throughout the house, Liam had placed an inexpensive, shadeless table lamp in the center of the room.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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After dry fields and trees came the sand, shadeless burning miles of it, with long-running ridges of rock making scarified marks on its otherwise featureless face.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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As he had done throughout the house, Liam had placed an inexpensive, shadeless table lamp in the center of the room.
Fat Chance Rhonda Pollero 2009
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On the hottest day, we would sit stuck in traffic, bare backs of legs stuck to the leatherette of our Ford Fairlane, park in an open scrub field, knowing that we would never see our car again, slog with other family pods to the long lines at the arching gates into a shadeless hell.
Kate Clinton: Our State of Affairs is a Great State Fair 2008
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