playless

English

Etymology

From play +‎ -less.

Adjective

playless (not comparable)

1. Devoid of play (recreational activities).
2. Without plays (theatrical works).
   • 1976, Susan Sontag, editor, Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings, page xliii:

     Despite his repeated insistence that the theater should dispense with plays, his own work in the theater was far from playless.

Derived terms

• playlessness

Anagrams

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