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English
Etymology
character + -less
Adjective
characterless (comparative more characterless, superlative most characterless)
- Having no distinguishing character or quality.
1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts:The House of All Sorts was new and characterless. It had not yet found itself—and an apartment house takes longer to find itself than do individual private houses.
- Lacking in or devoid of personality.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:The letter within was written in the same straggling, characterless caligraphy, — I should have said, had I been asked offhand, that the whole thing was the composition of a servant girl.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 16:It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.
Translations
having no distinguishing character or quality
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