noteless

American  

[noht-lis] / ˈnoʊt lɪs /

adjective

1. not noted; undistinguished; unnoticed.

2. unmusical or voiceless.

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Other Word Forms

• notelessness
  noun
• notelessly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of noteless

First recorded in 1610–20; note + -less

Example Sentences

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noteless

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 Stevens, Bertram

He lifteth up the nations at His will, Or sweeps them with his lightest breath away Like noteless atoms.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

There are noteless lives, of course—lives that accept obscurity, mechanically run their narrow round of circumstance, and are lost; but when a life endeavors to lose itself,—to hide some conscious guilt or failure,—can it succeed?

From Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home by Taylor, Bayard

My note-book remained noteless, and finally, at some odd evasion of his, accomplished by a monosyllable, I laughed outright—and he did, too!

From Beasley's Christmas Party by Tarkington, Booth

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

From The Christian Home by Philips, Samuel