seamless

English

Etymology

From Middle English seemles, semeles, semles, Old English *sēamlēas, equivalent to seam +‎ -less. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål sømløs (“seamless”), Swedish sömlös (“seamless”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

seamless (not comparable)

1. (not comparable) Having no seams.

   seamless clothing

2. Without interruption; coherent.

   a seamless transition

   • 2025 June 30, Adrienne Matei, quoting Josh Lora, “‘Hey man, I’m so sorry for your loss’: should you use AI to text?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 July 2025:

     “People have sort of conditioned themselves to want a completely seamless and frictionless experience in their everyday lives 100% of the time,” says Josh Lora, a writer and sociologist who has written about AI and loneliness. “There are people who Uber everywhere, who Seamless everything, who Amazon everything, and render their lives completely smooth.”

Derived terms

terms derived from seamless (adjective)

• seamless branching
• seamless integration
• seamless interconnection
• seamlessly
• seamlessness
• seamless stockings

Translations

Having no seams

• Belarusian: бясшво́вы (bjasšvóvy)
• Bulgarian: безшевен (bezševen)
• Catalan: inconsútil
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無縫 / 无缝 (zh) (wúfèng)

• Czech: bezešvý
• Dutch: naadloos (nl)
• Finnish: saumaton (fi)
• French: sans couture, inconsutile (fr)
• Galician: sen costura
• German: fugenlos (de), nahtfrei, nahtlos (de)
• Hungarian: varrás nélküli
• Italian: ininterrotto (it), trasparente (it), impeccabile (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sømløs

  Nynorsk: saumlaus

• Occitan: sensa cosedura, inconsutil
• Persian: بی‌درز (bi-darz)
• Polish: bezszwowy (pl)
• Portuguese: inconsútil (pt)
• Romanian: fără cusătură
• Russian: бесшовный (ru) (besšovnyj)
• Spanish: inconsútil (es), sin costura
• Swedish: sömlös (sv)
• Turkish: dikişsiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: безшо́вний (uk) (bezšóvnyj)

Without interruption; coherent

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絲滑 / 丝滑 (sīhuá), 無縫 / 无缝 (zh) (wúfèng)

• Dutch: naadloos (nl)
• Finnish: saumaton (fi)
• French: homogène (fr), intégré (fr), ininterrompu (fr), continu (fr)
• German: nahtlos (de), makellos (de)
• Hungarian: zökkenőmentes (hu)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} senza soluzione di continuità, ininterrotto (it)
• Polish: nieprzerwany (pl), ciągły (pl)
• Romanian: omogen (ro)
• Russian: непреры́вный (ru) (neprerývnyj)
• Spanish: ininterrumpido (es), de una (es), fluido (es), fluente, fluyente, continuo (es), continuado (es), sin fisuras
• Turkish: muntazam (tr), mükemmel (tr), yetkin (tr)

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