featurelessadj.
/ˈfiːtʃələs/, U.S. /ˈfitʃərləs/ 1. Without good features; ugly. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective]
unfairc888
unhonestc1384
unlovesomec1390
uncomelya1400
unfreelya1400
unlovelyc1400
unbeautiful1495
beautiless1531
unpretty1562
unhandsomea1586
loveless1601
featureless1609
invenust1623
unhighted?1630
unbeauteousa1660
plain1675
wanliesum1818
unbonny1830
ordinary1847
plainish1856
unsonsy1894
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xi. sig. B3 Let those whom nature hath not made for store, Harsh, featurelesse, and rude, barrenly perrish. View more context for this quotation
1860 Sat. Rev. 9 831/1 A guard of featureless barbarians.
2. Wanting facial features. Also, Having no marked or prominent feature.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [adjective] > lacking features
featureless1825
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 275 The other [face of Janus]..maimed, featureless, and weather-bitten.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. vi. ii. 301 Featureless spectres..they seemed in their shroud-like robes.
1868 Ld. Houghton Sel. from Wks. 203 The statued form of Beauty..Now prostrate, powerless, featureless and cold.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 57 Indiscriminate lovers..turn blemishes into beauties..the featureless are faultless.
3.
a. transferred. Without any prominent mark or point of interest; uninteresting.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [adjective] > characterless
unrelieved1673
unfeatured1693
neutral1755
samely1799
unindividuala1834
featureless1839
clueless1862
unbrightened1873
uninterspersed1887
attributeless1894
faceless1936
identikit1963
fast food1977
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > [adjective] > wearisome or tedious
dreicha1300
alangec1330
joylessa1400
tedious1412
wearifulc1454
weary1465
laboriousa1475
tiresome?a1513
irksome1513
wearisome1530
woodena1566
irkful1570
flat1573
leaden1593
barren1600
soaked1600
unlively1608
dulla1616
irking1629
drearisome1633
drear1645
plumbous1651
fatigable1656
dreary1667
uncurious1685
unenlivened1692
blank1726
disinteresting1737
stupid1748
stagnant1749
trist?1756
vegetable1757
borish1766
uninteresting1769
unenlivening1774
oorie1787
wearying1796
subjectless1803
yawny1805
wearing1811
stuffy1813
sloomy1820
tediousome1823
arid1827
lacklustrous1834
boring1839
featureless1839
slow1840
sodden1853
ennuying1858
dusty1860
cabbagy1861
old1864
mouldy1876
yawnful1878
drab1880
dehydrated1884
interestless1886
jay1889
boresome1895
stodgy1895
stuffy1895
yawnsome1900
sludgy1901
draggy1922
blah1937
nowhere1940
drack1945
stupefactive1970
schleppy1978
wack1986
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. ii. 22 The low and featureless form of the ground.
1871 Sat. Rev. 29 Apr. The absolutely featureless country house of George III.'s reign.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul II. ix. xliii. 378 Not recognising a single landmark on the featureless shore.
1891 Punch 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.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [adjective] > feeling or state of market
sensitive1813
bearish1827
light1827
quiet1833
easy1836
soft1849
weak1856
steady1857
buoyant1868
sick1870
swimming1870
featureless1879
bullish1882
firm1887
gravelly1887
technical1889
pippy1892
manipulated1903
thin1931
volatile1931
trendless1939
nervous1955
toppy1961
over-bullish1970
toppish1983
1879 Standard 21 May 2/1 Business in Discount to-day was absolutely featureless.
1885 Manch. Examiner 1 Apr. 4/1 Canadian Pacific shares were featureless.
Derivatives
ˈfeaturelessness n.
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1883 I. L. Bird Sketches Malay Penins. ii, in Leisure Hour 21/1 Yet with all this..featurelessness..Malacca is very fascinating.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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