publess

English

Etymology

From pub +‎ -less.

Adjective

publess (not comparable)

1. Lacking a pub.
   • 2010, James Gibney, This Is Not about Cycling in Japan, page 89:

     Except for the fact they were publess, the roads were very pleasant and wide.

   • 2012, Nat Segnit, Pub Walks in Underhill Country:

     The thankful status of this lovely, if publess, village is commemorated in a modest tablet in St Peter's Church, reached, rather unnervingly, via a sunken path between high banks densely packed with gravestones.

Derived terms

• publessness

Anagrams

• bless up