gravyless

English

Etymology

From gravy +‎ -less.

Adjective

gravyless (not comparable)

1. Without gravy.

   Coordinate terms: sauceless, unsauced

   The roast dinner was gravyless and dry.

   • 1899 July 13, Mrs. A[lexander] J[effrey] M’Kelway [i.e., Lavinia Rutherford McKelway], “Children as Church Members. […]”, in A. J. McKelway, editor, Presbyterian Standard, volume XLI, number 27, Charlotte, N.C.: Presbyterian Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 4, column 1:

     The punishments for negligence were varied and made as far as possible to suit the case of the delinquent, a butterless, gravyless or syrupless breakfast being the usual consequence of failure to be up in time.