smokeless

English

Etymology

From smoke +‎ -less.

Adjective

smokeless (not comparable)

1. Without smoke.

   smokeless fuel

   smokeless gunpowder

2. (firearms) (Of a gun) that does not produce smoke when fired.
   • 1971, Thomas G. Burton, Ambrose N. Manning, editors, Folksongs II, Research Advisory Council of East Tennessee State University, page 19:

     I run home, jumped in the bed,
     Laid a forty-four smokeless under my head.

3. (Of tobacco) to be consumed through methods other than smoking.

Derived terms

• smokeless powder

Translations

without smoke

• Bulgarian: бездимен (bezdimen)
• Finnish: savuton (fi)
• German: rauchlos (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄκαπνος (ákapnos)

• Hungarian: füstmentes
• Lithuanian: bedūmis
• Polish: bezdymny (pl)
• Turkish: dumansız (tr)