featureless

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English

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Etymology

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From feature +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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featureless (comparative more featureless, superlative most featureless)

  1. Without distinguishing features.
    a featureless brick wall
    • 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:
      This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness.
    • 1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 278:
      The branch is three and a half miles long over virtually level, featureless countryside.

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