Hearthless vs Healthless – What’s the difference?

Hearthless vs Healthless - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between hearthless and healthless is that hearthless is without a hearth while healthless is unhealthy.

hearthless

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Without a hearth.

* 2005 , Axel von Starck, Alfred Mühlbauer, Carl Kramer, Handbook of thermoprocessing technologies (page 407)

For this reason, a hearthless pusher-type furnace has been developed.

(figuratively, by extension) Without a home.

* 1906 , Henry Watterson, The compromises of life (page 343)

It was not a singer of the fireside, but a hearthless wanderer, who put in all hearts the Anglo-Saxon’s simple “Home, Sweet Home.”

Unhealthy.