Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not sharp; blunt; obtuse; unfit to cut or penetrate: as, an edgeless sword; an edgeless argument.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not having an edge, or whose boundary is unclear.
- adj. of a blade Not having a sharp cutting edge; blunt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking a cutting edge
Etymologies
- edge + -less (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Robert Lang has gone even further, using the term "edgeless cities" to describe what he calls an increasingly "elusive metropolis" with highly dispersed employment.”
“But only the 3D models, which were previewed at CES, feature a new "One "design that uses an ultra-thin bezel to create an "edgeless" appearance.”
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“Ms. Paige sang "I'm Still Here" with panache, but her diction was too edgeless to cut through the orchestra.”
“Chicago's Peninsula Hotel has on its top floor an edgeless "infinity pool" along a wall of glass, enabling swimmers to crawl across the city skyline supported by water.”
“Still, there's nothing especially new in the themes or the feelings expressed, and Mr. Gordon's edgeless music goes for surface prettiness and sentimentality instead of grit.”
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“The edgeless, and nearly plotless Pippin, is too well meaning and too unfocused to generate interest outside of a few of the musical numbers.”
“The threat, according to the Ukrainian-born Eugene Hütz -- leader of the gypsy, punk, cabaret band Gogol Bordello -- is a globalized economic system that spawns soulless, edgeless, byproducts "where you can buy all these stupid souvenirs and shirts that you can't tell where they're from.”
“The threat, according to the Ukrainian-born Eugene Hütz -- leader of the gypsy, punk, cabaret band Gogol Bordello -- is a globalized economic system that spawns soulless, edgeless, byproducts "where you can buy all these stupid souvenirs and shirts that you can't tell where they're from.”
“Our sterile, perfectly rounded, and edgeless plastic lives are not safer.”
“BUt it seems a bit edgeless… nothing unique, special or eyecathing.”
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SCIE - graph theory
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On edge
words on edge with hedging and alledged deckled edging
on edge edged hed..., hedgehog sledgedog, feckle deckle edge, leading edge, bleeding edge, sand wedge, tedge, straight edge, ledge edge, fledge, feather-edge, selvedge and 22 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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