storylessadj.
/ˈstɔːrɪlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈstɔrilᵻs/ Without a story or stories; lacking a storyline or plot; having no stories to tell.
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storyless1824
1824 Amer. Monthly Mag. (Philadelphia) Mar. 201 The great majority of the works of these writers, are of the storyless kind, and are, therefore, misnamed when they are called novels.
1867 Anthenæum 9 Nov. 607/3 The author is as story-less as the knife-grinder.
1956 Times 12 Oct. 3/2 A storyless ballet like Symphonic Variations will be a new experience to the present generation of Russians.
1994 College Eng. 56 887 Regionalist fiction seeks to construct women as storyful rather than storyless.
1997 Independent on Sunday 1 June i. 12/7 The big-budget storyless movie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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