Definitions

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  • adjective Without meter (musical or poetical measure); arhythmic.
  • adjective Without a meter (measuring device).

Etymologies

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meter +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The band took to the stage on a foggy warble of cable moans and blasted into a kind of meterless take on Erase Errata - vocalist Jess Goddard in barking mode and guitars set to bacon-frying attack.

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2009

  • With the meterless levels I & 2 (fixed rates) the time spent on meter reading has been minimized.

    1 Introduction 1992

  • Coming from a family steeped in Jewish musical tradition - including his grandfather, Cantor Jacob Konigsberg - Lockwood adds rhythm to traditionally meterless cantorial songs.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Coming from a family steeped in Jewish musical tradition - including his grandfather, Cantor Jacob Konigsberg - Lockwood adds rhythm to traditionally meterless cantorial songs.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The players were doing such a fine job of following one another through the tricky rhythms and open-ended, meterless sections that to provide formal direction seemed unnecessary.

    Phawker 2008

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