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say it: SMOH-kluhs
smokeless is an adjective meaning "emitting or containing little or no smoke". It is pronounced /ˈsmoʊkləs/ — SMOH-kluhs. It carries one recorded sense.
emitting or containing little or no smoke
“smokeless factory stacks”
“smokeless fuel”
“a smokeless environment”
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 smokeless 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.