Definitions

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  • adjective Lacking focus.

Etymologies

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focus +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The spinning, kinetic stars cast their light into the room and in the darkness the patterns played over my skin and Diane's in focusless images, the way city lights shine through a rain-streaked window, silently, sinuously.

    Spin 2005

  • Thrown into an office full of middleaged disenchanted women, he was girdle-shy and prone to long sessions of self involved focusless staring.

    i-claudius Diary Entry i-claudius 2002

  • His present existence was as focusless as an eye after its lens has been extracted.

    The Brentons Anna Chapin Ray 1905

  • And something like a flash of cold moonlight on wintred water gleamed over, rather than shot from, his poor focusless eyes.

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • Can you please share me your ideas how you got focusless and inactive window

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

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