Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contextless

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: con-text-less
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

without context

Example Sentences

"Like their fellow Glaswegians in Arab Strap, Scatter like to add contextless and slightly cryptic monologues to their music--an unfortunate predilection, since the delivery usually sounds forced and overstrict alongside the impulsive swells of the band's free-folk drone."
"What is a problem, though, is that the fictional math in WN is extremely important but also extremely vague, comprising mostly repeated and contextless verbiage--"If I could only establish its K-reducibility with the aid of a suitable calibrator set!""

Etymology

From context + -less.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: context

Derived Forms

contextlessness

Questions

What does contextless mean?: without context
Where does contextless come from?: From context + -less.

How to pronounce contextless

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