phaseless
English
Etymology
Adjective
phaseless (not comparable)
- Without a phase, or visible form.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
- The expression of his smile […] was one of profound melancholy—of a phaseless and unceasing gloom.
- 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phaseless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)