contourless
adjEtymology From contour + -less. Cognate with Swedish konturlös.
1
Without a contour or contours.
- Mrs Lackersteen was a woman of about thirty-five, handsome in a contourless, elongated way, like a fashion plate.1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:
- 1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, London: Heinemann, Section One, p. 112, They would carry their private grief on their faces for a few weeks more before hiding it inside and resuming the communal, contourless monotony of prison life.
- Derived terms
- contourlessness