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styleless

styleless adjective: lacking good style or any style at all.

Adjective

styleless (not comparable)

  1. Lacking good style or any style at all.
    • It is not enough to say that style is a characteristic mode of expression, for then it would be almost impossible to speak of anything as styleless.1921, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's Magazine
    • He was too thin, so that the styleless clothes hung poorly, and something in his coloring made her think that he ate the wrong foods.1992, Greg Johnson, A Friendly Deceit
  2. Lacking a style (stalk structure).
    • Short-styled and styleless flowers were sometimes mixed in these individuals.1990, Nihon Shokubutsu Gakkai, The Botanical Magazine, Tokyo

Origin of styleless

From style + -less.

Words formed from styleless

Questions about styleless

What does styleless mean?
Styleless means lacking good style or any style at all.
What part of speech is styleless?
Styleless is an adjective.

Words near styleless in the dictionary

  1. styled
  2. styled it out
  3. styled up
  4. styledom
  5. stylee
  6. styleless
  7. stylelessly
  8. stylelessness
  9. stylelike
  10. stylemog
  11. stylemogged

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