FEATURELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does featureless mean? 

• FEATURELESS (adjective)
  The adjective FEATURELESS has 1 sense:

1. lacking distinguishing characteristics or features

  Familiarity information: FEATURELESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEATURELESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking distinguishing characteristics or features

Context example:

the featureless landscape of the steppe

Similar:

plain (not elaborate or elaborated; simple)

 Context examples 

The case was featureless as I remember it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It just had a near-infrared spectrometer, and in the near-infrared, chlorides are featureless.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

"At best, adult frogs normally grow back only a featureless, thin, cartilaginous spike," says senior author Michael Levin, developmental biologist at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University.

(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The asteroid’s reflectance spectrum — the specific pattern of wavelengths of light reflected from an object — was different to that of similar small Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), which typically have uninteresting, featureless spectra that reveal little information about their composition.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

The ocean may appear to our eye as a vast, featureless expanse, but the animals that live in it know how to read subtle cues and follow them to where their food is concentrated.

(Blue sharks use ocean eddies as fast-tracks to food, National Science Foundation)

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)