characterless

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Etymology

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From character +‎ -less.

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characterless (comparative more characterless, superlative most characterless)

  1. Having no distinguishing character or quality.
  2. Lacking in or devoid of personality.
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      The letter within was written in the same straggling, characterless caligraphy, — I should have said, had I been asked offhand, that the whole thing was the composition of a servant girl.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 16:
      It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.

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