characterless
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.86 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having no distinguishing character or quality.
adj
Lacking in or devoid of personality.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "In recent times, the track has been straightened out and a new, somewhat characterless, station has been built just to the east."
- "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."
- "It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness."
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Hellenic *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der. Latin charactērder. Old French caracterebor. Middle English caracter English character Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English characterless From character + -less.
Inflected Forms
more characterless (comparative)
most characterless (superlative)