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say it: ER-luhs
airless is an adjective meaning "lacking fresh air". It is pronounced /ˈɛɹləs/ — ER-luhs. It carries one recorded sense.
lacking fresh air
“a dusty airless attic”
“the dreadfully close atmosphere”
“hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for airless come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.