meatless

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmiːtləs/

meatless (not comparable)

1. Without meat.

   Synonym: unmeated

   Antonym: meatful

   • 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?

   • 2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “Eating more plants and going meatless is a good way to preserve your health,” said Dr. Robert Graham, who is board certified in both internal and integrative medicine. […] Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”

• Malteses, mateless, tameless, teamless