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captureless

captureless adjective: that captures or captured nothing.

Adjective

captureless (comparative more captureless, superlative most captureless)

  1. That captures or captured nothing.
    • Poetry's captureless incipience is unavailable to such brutal measures which, rather than participating in the subtleties of the poem, slice them up according to the dominant deceits of public discourse.2013, Anthony Howe, Byron and the Forms of Thought
  2. (broadly) (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.

Forms of captureless

comparativemore captureless
superlativemost captureless

Origin of captureless

From capture + -less.

Questions about captureless

What does captureless mean?
Captureless means that captures or captured nothing.
What part of speech is captureless?
Captureless is an adjective.

Words near captureless in the dictionary

  1. capture effect
  2. capture effects
  3. capture myopathy
  4. capture the flag
  5. captured
  6. captureless
  7. capturer
  8. capturers
  9. captures
  10. capturest
  11. captureth

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