Meanings
comparative more featureless · superlative most featureless
- Without distinguishing features.
a featureless brick wall
3 more examples
This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 202The branch is three and a half miles long over virtually level, featureless countryside.
1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 278I was desperate for something (anything!) to latch onto, to be interested in. But Cupertino was featureless.
2019, Jenny Odell, “Exercises in attention”, in How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, →ISBN, page 96
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelacking distinguishing characteristics or features
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishfeature
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishfeatureless
Cite this entry
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