ˈcommerceless,a. [f. commerce n. + -less.] Devoid of commerce or trade. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1782) I. 135 In some dark and dismal room behind [the shop] he sits commerceless in his thrum night-cap.a1799in Tytler Mem.Ld. Kames II. 11 (L.) The savage commerceless nations of America.