featureless

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US/ˈfi.t͡ʃɚ.ləs/

adjective

Without distinguishing features.

“a featureless brick wall”

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Meanings

adjectivefeatureless (comparative more featureless, superlative most featureless)

comparative more featureless · superlative most featureless

  1. Without distinguishing features.

    a featureless brick wall

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    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 202

    The 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 278

    I 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

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Origin

  1. Englishfeature
  2. Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
  4. Proto-Germanic*leusaną
  5. Proto-Germanic*lausaz
  6. Englishfeatureless

From feature + -less.

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APA

featureless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/featureless

MLA

“featureless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/featureless. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “featureless,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/featureless.

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