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featureless

American  
[fee-cher-lis] / ˈfi tʃər lɪs /

adjective

  1. without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab.

    a featureless landscape.
featureless British  
/ ˈfiːtʃəlɪs /

adjective

  1. without distinctive points or qualities; undistinguished

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Word Forms

  • featurelessness noun

Etymology

Origin of featureless

First recorded in 1590–1600; feature + -less

Example Sentences

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McMurtry was born in 1936 in Archer City, a town of a few thousand on the sunbaked and featureless plains of north-central Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

It was hard to tell — each unit had the same gray, featureless quality that made you feel like you might still be in trouble for something.

From Salon • Oct. 14, 2025

From Earth, the Sun is so bright that it appears like a featureless disc.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2025

Some of the structures that survived — shopping centers, office buildings, a church, a school building, apartments, an occasional house — rose out of an otherwise featureless, battered and gray landscape.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

That's great for science, but it means the Hab's in a featureless wasteland.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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