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English
Etymology
From context + -less.
Adjective
contextless (not comparable)
- without context
2006 March 24, Mia Lily Clarke, Monica Kendrick, Brian McManus, “Short Takes on Recent Releases”, in Chicago Reader:Like their fellow Glaswegians in Arab Strap, Scatter like to add contextless and slightly cryptic monologues to their music--an unfortunate predilection, since the delivery usually sounds forced and overstrict alongside the impulsive swells of the band's free-folk drone.
2000 December 22, David Foster Wallace, “FICTION: Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama”, in Science, volume 290, number 5500, →DOI, pages 2263–2267:What is a problem, though, is that the fictional math in WN is extremely important but also extremely vague, comprising mostly repeated and contextless verbiage--"If I could only establish its K-reducibility with the aid of a suitable calibrator set!"
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