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Definition: Featureless |
FeaturelessAdjective1. Lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "featureless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references) |
Crosswords: Featureless |
| Specialty definitions using "featureless": baselevel plain, base-level plain, baseleveled plain ♦ denudation plain ♦ peneplain, peneplane ♦ strath terrace. (references) |
| "Featureless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Featureless" is used about 125 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 125 | 28,650 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "featureless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që s'të lë përshtypje, pa tipare dalluese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ساكن (asleep, boarder, calm, constant, dweller, placid, static, tranquil), رتيب (drab, humdrum, monotonous, vegetable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неизразителен (inexpressive, null), без характерни черти. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | fádní (bloodless, drab, dreary, dull, flat, Gray, grey, humdrum, jejune, tame, tasteless, tiresome), nevýrazný (drab, dull, Gray, grey, laconic, nerveless, nondescript, poverty stricken, uninspired), jednotvárný (drab, dull, humdrum, jejune, monotonous, trivial, uneventful, uniform, unrelieved), beztvarý (formless, shapeless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans traits marquants, aux traits lourds, anonyme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ohne bestimmte merkmale, nichtssagend (bland, blank, characterless, empty, expressionless, frivolous, inexpressive, inexpressively, insignificant, meaningless, pointless, trite, trivial, unmeaning, unmeaningly, vacant, vacuous, vapid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חסר קוים אפי ים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jellegtelen (characterless, null), mástól megkülönböztethetetlen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | uten særpreg. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eaturelessfay inexpressivo (blank, expressive, inexpugnable, meaningly, toneless, unmeaning), exibir (blazon, bring out, create, display, exhibit, expose, flaunt, hold up, keep up, parade, produce, put out, set out). (various references) совершенно ровный, не имеющий особенностей. (various references) bezizražajan (expressionless, vacuous). (various references) sin rasgos distintivos. (various references) utan särdrag, slätstruken (indifferent, undistinguished). (various references) ซึ่งไม่น่าสนใจ. (various references) niteliksiz, özelliği olmayan. (various references) невиразний (chancy, characterless, dim, elusive, expressionless, faint, foggy, hazy, indecisive, ineffective, inexpressive, milk and water, nebulose, nebulous, neutral, obscure, toneless, weak, wishy washy, woolly, wooly), позбавлений особливостей. (various references) không có nét đặc biệt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "featureless" (pronounced fē"kherlus) |
| 4 | -er l u s | colorless, driverless, fatherless, featherless, humorless, leaderless, motherless, odorless, paperless, powerless, rudderless, tireless. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fearless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-f-l-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: resalutes, teaselers. | |
-3 letters: esterase, eusteles, fearless, feasters, features, feetless, flatuses, flusters, fretless, reflates, refusals, refutals, releases, resalute, reslates, saluters, stealers, streusel, sulfates, tearless, teaseler, tesserae, treeless, turfless. | |
-4 letters: afreets, artless, austere, earfuls, earless, easeful, easters, elaters, eluates, estrual, eustele, falsest, falters, fasters, fatless, feaster, feature, feelers, feeless, ferulae, ferulas, ferules, festers, fetuses, fleeter. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-f-l-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: tearfulnesses. | |
+3 letters: gratefulnesses. | |
+4 letters: masterfulnesses. | |
+5 letters: fraudulentnesses, ungratefulnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 61 74 75 72 65 6C 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .- - ..- .-. . .-.. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e a t u r e l e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0061 0074 0075 0072 0065 006C 0065 0073 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4071678687847178718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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