Wareless

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Being without merchandise or goods to sell; lacking items available for trade or purchase
2. Devoid of any products or items for sale
3. lacking stock or inventory available in a marketplace

Etymology: "Wareless" is built from two plain English parts: "ware," meaning goods or merchandise offered for sale, and the suffix "-less," meaning "without." Put together, the word describes something or someone with no goods to sell or no merchandise on hand. "Ware" in this sense comes from Old English "waru," a word for things that are made or sold, and it survives today mostly in compounds like "silverware," "glassware" and "software." The suffix "-less" is one of the most productive endings in English, attached freely to nouns to mean "lacking that thing," as in "hopeless" or "careless." The combination is transparent, so the word needs no special story; its meaning follows directly from the two parts it joins.

Synonyms: unencumbered, free, lightweight

Antonyms: burdened, loaded, encumbered