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airless | American Dictionary

airless
adjective
us/ˈeər·ləs/
having little or no air from outside, and having no movement of air:
My hotel room was small, airless, and uncomfortable.

Note:

Used to describe an inside space.

Examples of airless

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Would it not be best to build some suitable monument on an inert, airless body near an inhabitable planet?
On an airless body, this is the whole story and there is a substantial equator-to-pole temperature gradient and the planet is everywhere at radiative equilibrium.
Meanwhile, however, this project resembles the attempt to breathe in an airless space.
In classical thermophysical models of airless solar system bodies complete opaqueness of the surface material has been assumed.
Her airless room had no windows, it stank of the insecticide that was used in a losing battle to control the roaches, and its ceiling was crisscrossed with sweating pipes.
It is totally unsuitable for prolonged parliamentary activity, at least while it remains as airless as it is now.
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They are dark, they are dreary, they are airless.
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The site is shut in and airless.
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It is clean, but it is airless.
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Exploring the surface they find it to be a lifeless, airless, barren rock but their curiosity is piqued by some phosphorescent lakes.
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It is typically categorized as an airless blasting operation because there is no propellant (gas or liquid) used.
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The user should wear rubber gloves and, in tight airless spaces, goggles.
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The castle's bottle dungeon is a dank and airless pit cut out of solid rock below the north-west tower.
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Later, the company added air-atomized spray painting systems, and incorporated efficient electrostatics in airless, air-atomized and rotary-atomized painting processes.
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All the power stations had been shut down, and the guys were crammed into an airless, sweltering studio for four weeks of consistent recording.
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