characterless
adjEtymology From character + -less.
1
Having no distinguishing character or quality.
- The great mass of American citizens estimate us, as being a characterless and purposeless people ; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation's scorn and contempt.1855, William Cooper Nell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution:
- 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.1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts:
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- In recent times, the track has been straightened out and a new, somewhat characterless, station has been built just to the east.2025 April 2, “Saluting Scotland's magnificent Inter 7?”, in RAIL, number 1032, page 55:
2
Lacking in or devoid of personality.
- 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.1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 16:
- Derived terms
- characterlessly, characterlessness