Download the app
educalingo
Search
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
Edmund White

Meaning of "featureless" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF FEATURELESS

featureless  [ˈfiːtʃəlɪs] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FEATURELESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Featureless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FEATURELESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of featureless in the English dictionary

The definition of featureless in the dictionary is without distinctive points or qualities; undistinguished.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FEATURELESS


acropolis
əˈkrɒpəlɪs
Annapolis
əˈnæpəlɪs
careless
ˈkɛəlɪs
cultureless
ˈkʌltʃəlɪs
fixtureless
ˈfɪkstʃəlɪs
futureless
ˈfjuːtʃəlɪs
hairless
ˈhɛəlɪs
Indianapolis
ˌɪndɪəˈnæpəlɪs
metropolis
mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs
Minneapolis
ˌmɪnɪˈæpəlɪs
paperless
ˈpeɪpəlɪs
pastureless
ˈpɑːstʃəlɪs
peerless
ˈpɪəlɪs
powerless
ˈpaʊəlɪs
pressureless
ˈprɛʃəlɪs
raptureless
ˈræptʃəlɪs
structureless
ˈstrʌktʃəlɪs
teacherless
ˈtiːtʃəlɪs
tireless
ˈtaɪəlɪs
wireless
ˈwaɪəlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FEATURELESS

featherlight
feathers
featherstitch
featherweight
feathery
featliness
featly
feature
feature article
feature editor
feature film
feature story
feature writer
feature-length
feature-length film
featured
featurelessness
featurely
features
featurette

WORDS THAT END LIKE FEATURELESS

ageless
boneless
bottomless
clueless
faceless
frameless
homeless
hopeless
lifeless
loveless
nameless
nevertheless
nonetheless
priceless
senseless
shameless
sleeveless
tasteless
timeless
tubeless
useless

Synonyms and antonyms of featureless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «featureless» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF FEATURELESS

Find out the translation of featureless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of featureless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «featureless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无特色
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sin rasgos
570 millions of speakers

English

featureless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कुरूप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فيتورلس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

невыразительный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inexpressivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বৈশিষ্ট্যহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

relief
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak layak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gesichts
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

特徴のない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

특색
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kurang ajar
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không đặc biệt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெறுமையான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अमर्याद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

özelliği olmayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

featureless
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezpłciowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невиразний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

de caracteristici
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιαίτερα χαρακτηριστικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitdrukking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

formlös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

særpreg
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of featureless

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FEATURELESS»

The term «featureless» is regularly used and occupies the 92.801 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
57
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «featureless» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of featureless
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «featureless».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FEATURELESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «featureless» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «featureless» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about featureless

EXAMPLES

3 QUOTES WITH «FEATURELESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word featureless.
1
Arthur Conan Doyle
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
2
Patton Oswalt
I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.
3
Edmund White
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEATURELESS»

Discover the use of featureless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to featureless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Aviation Visual Perception: Research, Misperception and Mishaps
Featureless Terrain Illusion The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Aeronautical Information Manual defines the featureless terrain illusion: An absence of ground features, as when landing over water, darkened areas, and terrain made ...
Colonel Randall W Gibb, Dr Rob Gray, Dr David M Regan, 2012
2
Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology
In discussing the origin of the earth's surface features, Griggs (1954) computed that if the forces of erosion and hydrostatic buoyance alone were operative, the earth as a whole would be eroded to a featureless plain near sea level in a period ...
Luna Bergere Leopold, Luna B. Leopold, 1995
3
Cygnus A: Study of a Radio Galaxy : Proceedings of the ...
... featureless blue, featureless extended emission line region (EELR) 15ff, 38 extended HII region envelope (EHE) 186, 189 extended optical continuum 56 see also - extended blue, featureless blue, featureless extinction 4, 6, 35-36, 4 Iff, 58, ...
C. L. Carilli, D. E. Harris, 1996
4
Featureless Void
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
5
Amarna's Leatherwork. Part I: Preliminary Analysis and Catalogue
Featureless scrap. TA AM 144 1993 22617 AD52 7518 19.1 x 27.0; t: 3.5 Leather Dark brown, black Not illustrated. Featureless scrap. Material Colour Remarks Description TA AM 145 1993 22609 AA36 7441 12.1 x 20.8 - 38.3 x 59.0 (folded);  ...
A. J. Veldmeijer, 2012
6
The Transform and Data Compression Handbook
Cross-correlation of two frames is a featureless method of recovering translation model comparameters. Affine and projective comparameters can also be recovered using generalized forms of cross-correlation between two images (e.g. , ...
Kamisetty Ramam Rao, Patrick C. Yip, 2000
7
Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon
5. Post-War. Poetry: Featureless. Morning,. Featureless. Night. Philip. Larkin. and. the. Movement. Our quotation for this chapter heading comes from a line in ' Waiting for Breakfast'. Larkin typically offers it as a passing, but by no means final,  ...
Michael O'Neill, Madeleine Callaghan, 2011
8
Imaging Methods for Novel Materials and Challenging ...
The following scheme is implemented to reintroduce features in the featureless areas. First, the signed Euclidean distance to the level set defined by the threshold value is calculated. The maximum allowed featureless area is subtracted from ...
Helena Jin, Cesar Sciammarella, Cosme Furlong, 2012
9
Bioisosteres in Medicinal Chemistry
Aromatic negatively ionizable Aliphatic donor Aromatic positively ionizable Aliphatic acceptor Aromatic joint donor–acceptor Aliphatic featureless Aromatic donor Acyclic negatively ionizable Aromatic acceptor Acyclic positively ionizable  ...
Nathan Brown, 2012
10
Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram
addresses to the dead by a featureless voice When the dead are addressed and lauded in sepulchral epigram, it is usually not by a named individual, but by a nameless and featureless voice, supposedly pronouncing the received opinion ...
Manuel Baumbach, Andrej Petrovic, Ivana Petrovic, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FEATURELESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term featureless is used in the context of the following news items.
1
New Horizon pictures of Pluto's icy moon reveal it may have frozen …
The strange brown and grey world of Charon had appeared to be a featureless lump of rock but the new images suggest it may also be made ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
60000 miles and counting: Tom Kline walks the world
Earlier this year, he hired a couple with a compass, GPS and a sled dog team to help him cross 75 miles of white, featureless Alaskan tundra. «The Journal News | LoHud.com, Jul 15»
3
Why don't Charlotte streets run north-south?
Cities spring up where humans have congregated, for social and economic reasons. However, most cities didn't emerge on a featureless plain, ... «Charlotte Observer, Jul 15»
4
GPS: Twenty years of positioning, navigation, timing
... and were relied on heavily by allied troops to navigate the featureless deserts in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq. Since then, GPS technology ... «DVIDS, Jul 15»
5
Hot Property: An addition at Central Bank in South St. Paul
The two-story structure currently has a dated appearance with a flat, nearly featureless two-tone brick front facing Southview, but that would ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Ingham's World: Blissful escape from the daily grind can come in tiny …
HOW do seabirds navigate across thousands of miles of featureless ocean? They follow their noses. Rothamsted Research tells a Royal ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
Minions Is Good for a Few Laughs
The animators do a good job of taking what are essentially a bunch of featureless yellow tubes and making them feel like individuals with their ... «NDTV, Jul 15»
8
5 Things Climbers Need to Know About the Half Dome Flake that …
The flake didn't damage any of the climbing route below Pitch 11, but left an almost featureless scar in its absence and a bevy of questions. «Outside Magazine, Jul 15»
9
F1 2015 review
... injecting the often featureless autodromes that make up the F1 calendar with as much colour and character as you could reasonably expect. «Eurogamer.net, Jul 15»
10
Ant-Man: Marvels First Big Bomb
turn out to be little more than featureless, uninteresting drones. Ant-Man's biggest problem, though, is its inability to strike that fine-line balance ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Featureless [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/featureless>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z