featureless

[ fee-cher-lis ]

adjective

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

   a featureless landscape.

ˈfeatureless

/ ˈfiːtʃəlɪs /

adjective

1. without distinctive points or qualities; undistinguished

Derived Forms

• ˈfeaturelessness, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of featureless¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; feature + -less

Example Sentences

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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Popular-Science

In outback Queensland, dinosaur sites are featureless plains.

From The Daily Beast

The distance it can see shrinks, and thus its world grows more and more featureless.

From Quanta Magazine

Hands stronger or weaker than this by the value of a king or less may be described as featureless.

From Project Gutenberg

His young heroes are sometimes reckoned rather feeble and featureless.

From Project Gutenberg

Just one or two minute black featureless figures of men toiled amidst these monster shapes.

From Project Gutenberg

Two glowing arms raised up, and then an almost featureless face.

From Project Gutenberg

The screen turned featureless gray as the pickups stared blindly into some dimensionless noplace.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• forgettable
• nameless