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Featureless

Definition: Featureless

Featureless

Adjective

1. 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 plaindenudation plainpeneplain, peneplanestrath terrace. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Featureless

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%12528,650

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Featureless

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

совершенно ровный, не имеющий особенностей. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

bezizražajan (expressionless, vacuous). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sin rasgos distintivos. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utan särdrag, slätstruken (indifferent, undistinguished). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ซึ่งไม่น่าสนใจ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

niteliksiz, özelliği olmayan. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không có nét đặc biệt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Featureless"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "featureless" (pronounced fē"kherlus)
4-er l u scolorless, driverless, fatherless, featherless, humorless, leaderless, motherless, odorless, paperless, powerless, rudderless, tireless.
3-l u saccomplice, 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.

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Anagrams: Featureless

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.

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Alternative Orthography: Featureless


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 65 61 74 75 72 65 6C 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    .    .-    -    ..-    .-.    .    .-..    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100101 01100001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#97 &#116 &#117 &#114 &#101 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 0061 0074 0075 0072 0065 006C 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4071678687847178718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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