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UK
/kˈæɹɪktələs/
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ADJECTIVE
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lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting
a nondescript novel
women dressed in nondescript clothes
How To Use characterless In A Sentence
- As for the hair, it was characterless: a mousy mop that he would need to re-create completely. EVERVILLE
- But the same urchins along the walk from the strip back up the rise toward the quarters, the same characterless sleep.
- Entering the neighborhood, Phipps had half expected to find the same pristine but characterless dwellings as in Darlington—square boxes that could have been drawn by a child but for the missing squiggle of crayoned smoke coming from their chimneys. Unearthly Asylum
- She was lovely, but strangely characterless, like a classical sculpture on a plinth. A NASTY DOSE OF DEATH
- On the other hand, although e-mail messages are faceless, they are by no means characterless.
- characterless" are some of the adjectives heaped by self-appointed critics on his designs. Statesman.com - Highschool
- They are formless, characterless, and uninteresting.
- Metaphysics VII 3: In abstracting all qualities and other determinations from body Aristotle arrived at a conception of characterless, undetermined matter, a “prime matter” that the Neoplatonists later defined as formless and incorporeal (because it was no actual body, but only the necessary underlying condition for bodies). John Philoponus
- The place looked like somebody's utopia," he writes of Bellevue, Wash., a clean but characterless "boomburb" across Lake Washington from Seattle, "more a model city than an actual one, and it appeared to be inhabited by the kinds of people whom architects like to place as strolling figures in the foregrounds of watercolor sketches of their projects. An Englishman Lights Out
- All-round development is not characterless development, either, nor should it deny personality.