different between gustless vs dustless

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???stl?s/

Etymology 1

From Latin gustus (“a tasting”), and suffix -less.

Adjective

gustless (comparative more gustless, superlative most gustless)

1. (obsolete) tasteless; insipid
   • 1683, Sir Thomas Browne, Observations Upon Several Plants Mentioned In Scripture

     […] they might after give the expressed and less useful part of the cods and remaining pulp unto their swine: which, being no gustless or unsatisfying offal, might be well desired by the prodigal in his hunger.

Related terms

• degustation
• disgust

Etymology 2

gust +? -less

Adjective

gustless (comparative more gustless, superlative most gustless)

1. Without gusts (of wind).

English

Etymology

dust +? -less

Adjective

dustless (not comparable)

1. Free of dust.
   • 1936, Arthur Guiterman, First Dentistry was Painless

     Now motor roads are dustless,
     The latest steel is rustless,
     Our tennis courts are sodless,
     Our new religions, godless.

2. That does not generate dust.

Antonyms

• dusty

Anagrams

• studless