printless

American  

[print-lis] / ˈprɪnt lɪs /

adjective

1. making, retaining, or showing no print or impression.

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Etymology

Origin of printless

First recorded in 1600–10; print + -less

Example Sentences

In 2011, the team homed in on one gene, SMARCAD1, which was mutated in the nine printless family members, identifying it as the cause of the rare disease.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2020

More thick these terrors grew; Broad fields stretched out in many a frozen ridge; While far beyond were paths of printless snow.

From The Arctic Queen by Unknown

In a few moments we shall be of the elves       'That on the sand with printless foot   Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him   When he comes back.'

From Suburban Sketches by Howells, William Dean

I could talk with thee, till hasty night, Ere yet the sentinel day had done his watch; Veil'd like a spy, should steal on printless feet, To listen to our parley!

From The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Now slow, now swifter treading Their paces timed and true, An instant poised, then threading A maze of printless clue, The music smoothly wedding To motions ever new.

From Miscellany of Poetry 1919 by Seymour, W. Kean