featureless

[ fee-cher-lis ]

/ ˈfi tʃər lɪs /

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adjective

without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab: a featureless landscape.

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Origin of featureless

First recorded in 1590–1600; feature + -less

Words nearby featureless

feathery, featly, feature, featured, feature-length, featureless, feature story, feaze, feazing, FEB, febri-

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How to use featureless in a sentence

High school physics teachers describe them as featureless balls with one unit each of positive electric charge — the perfect foils for the negatively charged electrons that buzz around them.
Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing You Could Possibly Imagine’|Charlie Wood and Merrill Sherman|October 19, 2022|Quanta Magazine
At a scale of 50 micrometers, about half the width of a human hair, the seemingly featureless body of each ossicle gives way to a meshlike pattern that mirrors how carbon atoms are arranged in a diamond.
A diamondlike structure gives some starfish skeletons their strength|Carolyn Wilke|February 10, 2022|Science News
Human eyes could have trouble determining their location on a desolate stretch of road in a featureless desert, or a long span of bridge that looks just like the part before it, and the same is true of a robot car.
Why this Amazon-owned company is bringing its autonomous vehicles to Seattle|Rob Verger|October 18, 2021|Popular-Science
In outback Queensland, dinosaur sites are featureless plains.
Lizard of Oz: Australia’s Biggest Dinosaur Discovered|Scott Hocknull and Rochelle Lawrence, The Conversation|June 7, 2021|The Daily Beast

The distance it can see shrinks, and thus its world grows more and more featureless.
Big Bounce Simulations Challenge the Big Bang|Charlie Wood|August 4, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Hands stronger or weaker than this by the value of a king or less may be described as featureless.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
His young heroes are sometimes reckoned rather feeble and featureless.
Sir Walter Scott|William Paton Ker
Just one or two minute black featureless figures of men toiled amidst these monster shapes.
The New Machiavelli|Herbert George Wells
Two glowing arms raised up, and then an almost featureless face.
The Jewels of Aptor|Samuel R. Delany
The screen turned featureless gray as the pickups stared blindly into some dimensionless noplace.
Space Viking|Henry Beam Piper

British Dictionary definitions for featureless

featureless

/ (ˈfiːtʃəlɪs) /

adjective

without distinctive points or qualities; undistinguished

Derived forms of featureless

featurelessness, noun

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