noteless

American  

[noht-lis] / ˈnoʊt lɪs /

adjective

1. not noted; undistinguished; unnoticed.

2. unmusical or voiceless.

---

Other Word Forms

• notelessness
  noun
• notelessly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of noteless

First recorded in 1610–20; note + -less

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

noteless

"Go ask that musing father, why yon grave So narrow, and so noteless, might not close Without a tear?"

From The Christian Home by Samuel Philips

Some noteless Gaelic poet had made this into a forgotten ballad, some odd verses of which my white-capped friend remembered and sang for me.

From The Celtic Twilight by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

And in a far more venomous and violent style, the noteless mob of contemporary writers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various

The volume itself is noteless, though there are printed marks here and there which would suggest that notes were intended.

From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffroi de Villehardouin

Far be the noteless hour That holds of fame no flower  For those who dared our deep   A hundred years ago.

From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens