captureless

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

capture +‎ -less

Adjective[edit]

captureless (comparative more captureless, superlative most captureless)

  1. That captures or captured nothing.
    • 2013, Anthony Howe, Byron and the Forms of Thought[1]:
      Poetry's captureless incipience is unavailable to such brutal measures which, rather than participating in the subtleties of the poem, slice them up according to the dominant deceits of public discourse.
  2. (computing, by extension) (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.