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characterless

characterless adjective: having no distinguishing character or quality.

Adjective

characterless (comparative more characterless, superlative most characterless)

  1. Having no distinguishing character or quality.
    • 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.1855, William Cooper Nell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
    • 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.1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts
  2. Lacking in or devoid of personality.
    • 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.1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
    • It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 16

characterless meaning in Urdu

characterless in Urdu

بدکردار

Forms of characterless

comparativemore characterless
superlativemost characterless

Origin of characterless

From character + -less.

Words formed from characterless

Questions about characterless

What does characterless mean?
Characterless means having no distinguishing character or quality.
What is characterless in Urdu?
Characterless in Urdu is بدکردار. See Characterless meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is characterless?
Characterless is an adjective.

Words near characterless in the dictionary

  1. characterized
  2. characterizer
  3. characterizers
  4. characterizes
  5. characterizing
  6. characterless
  7. characterlessly
  8. characterlessness
  9. characterlike
  10. characternym
  11. characternyms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: characterless (page history and authors); characterless (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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