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

Other Word Forms

• featurelessness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of featureless¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; feature + -less

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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There's Travis who in 2009 mauled his owner's friend so severely that it left her blind and with a featureless face.

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Their faces are featureless except for a crown of frilly pink gills.

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Fishermen were startled to discover trees on the otherwise featureless bottom of the Gulf of Mexico 10 miles from dry land, and a journalist, Ben Raines, helped bring the site to scientists’ attention.

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