flameless
adjEtymology From flame + -less.
1
That does not emit flames.
- 1892, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Phase the Fourth, Chapter 34, A steady glare from the now flameless embers painted the sides and back of the fireplace with its colour […]
- Mr Shrivell pulled one of [the exercise-books] out of the fire and, holding it by a flameless corner, waved it for a moment before the clock.1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 11, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
- Derived terms
- flamelessly, flamelessness