Meanings
- not comparableWithout a contour or contours.
1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, London: Heinemann, Section One, p. 112, They would carry their private grief on their faces for a few weeks more before hiding it inside and resuming the communal, contourless monotony of prison life.
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Mrs Lackersteen was a woman of about thirty-five, handsome in a contourless, elongated way, like a fashion plate.
1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days
Origin
From contour + -less. Cognate with Swedish konturlös.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish bezkonturowy
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Swedish konturlös
- konturlösTranslations
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contourless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/contourless
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