harvestless

harvestless

English

Etymology

harvest +‎ -less

Adjective

harvestless (comparative more harvestless, superlative most harvestless)

1. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren[1].
   • 1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., OCLC 926377946, (please specify the page):

     They hate me also for my love to you,
     My Philip; and these judgments on the land —
     Harvestless autumns, horrible agues, plague […]

References

1. harvestless in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913