Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Lacking distinguishing characteristics or features.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no distinct features; shapeless.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having no distinct or distinctive features.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective without features

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking distinguishing characteristics or features

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Examples

  • It was a figure in a white robe, with a kind of featureless mask over the face, through the apertures of which the eyes threw an unintelligible light.

    The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • While AutoHotkey can of course be used within an ICA or RDP session to control apps running in the session, its ability to control sessions when running on the client machine is somewhat limited by the fact that the entire remote window (or a Citrix published app window) is seen locally as a "featureless" bitmap within a window owned by the (ICA or RDP) client.

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • within an ICA or RDP session to control apps running in the session, its ability to control sessions when running on the client machine is somewhat limited by the fact that the entire remote window (or a Citrix published app window) is seen locally as a "featureless" bitmap within a window owned by the (ICA or RDP) client.

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • She also pans the "featureless" space, saying "what are we doing up here in frosty isolation?

    Latest hospitality news from CatererSearch 2008

  • But before Rogeiro answered, Sisko saw for himself: three massive vessels, teardrop-shaped, featureless while in flight, but together, more than a match for the Galaxy-class Robinson.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • I crouch down and start picking up the little black clumps off the featureless white floor.

    The Kitchen Daughter Jael McHenry 2011

  • Most are nude, huddling together in some kind of subcultural congress amid the virtually featureless undergrowth of wild landscapes.

    This week's new exhibitions 2012

  • Emblematic of the mysterious nature of the target was that satellite imaging before the raid showed a large featureless boxlike structure.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • His face was featureless, save for gaping orifices and for the lidless eyes that burned under hairless brows.

    Koolau the Leper 2010

  • A cold woman, almost featureless because of her long years of training, but with a hot heart deep down, and characterized by an intense devotion to her mistress.

    THEFT 2010

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