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featureless, a.|ˈfiːtjʊəlɪs|
[f. as prec. + -less.]
1. Without good features; ugly. rare.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. xi, Let those whom Nature hath not made for store, Harsh, featureless, and rude, barrenly perish. 1860Sat. Rev. IX. 831/1 A guard of featureless barbarians.
2. Wanting facial features. Also, Having no marked or prominent feature.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 224 The other [face of Janus]..maimed, featureless, and weather-bitten. 1835Lytton Rienzi vi. ii, Featureless spectres..they seemed in their shroud-like robes. 1868Ld. Houghton Select. fr. Wks. 203 The statued form of Beauty..Now prostrate, powerless, featureless and cold. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 66 Indiscriminate lovers..turn blemishes into beauties..the featureless are faultless.
3. transf. Without any prominent mark or point of interest; uninteresting.
1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. ii. 22 The low and featureless form of the ground. 1871Sat. Rev. 29 Apr., The absolutely featureless country house of George III.'s reign. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 717 Not recognising a single land⁓mark on the featureless shore. 1891Punch Christmas No. 7/2 The month [of March] will be so featureless.
b. Of business, esp. on the stock market: Giving no occasion for remark; uneventful.
1879Standard 21 May 2/1 Business in Discount to-day was absolutely featureless. 1885Manch. Exam. 1 Apr. 4/1 Canadian Pacific shares were featureless.
Hence ˈfeaturelessness.
1883I. L. Bishop Sk. Malay Penin. ii. in Leisure Hour 21/1 Yet with all this..featurelessness..Malacca is very fascinating. |