meatless

Without meat.

Adjective

  1. Without meat.
    • A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation. - 1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
    • 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? - 1942, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second...
    • “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...

    Synonyms: unmeated

    Antonyms: meatful

Origin

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

Derived

meatless loaf meatlessly meatlessness