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wowless

wowless adjective: free of wows.

Adjective

wowless (comparative more wowless, superlative most wowless)

  1. Free of wows.
    • This damping device results in absolutely uniform and “wowless” rotation of the synchronous turntable.1930 March, “RCA ‘Type G’ Reproducing Equipment”, in The Motion Picture Projectionist, volume 3, number 5, page 17
    • If for no other reason, the difficulty of obtaining a wowless speed at 16⅔ rpm should be enough to unsell any music lover for his high-quality listening system, especially with changers or low-priced turntables.1956 January, “Editor’s Report”, in Audio Magazine, volume 40, number 1, page 10
  2. (rare) Not eliciting surprise or amazement; unremarkable, dull.
    • An audience of young instructors and their wives, symbolically entertaining Dr and Mrs Dreyer, will be symbolically thrilled to catch the Dean in an anecdotal mood, mooning and mumbling with a fuddled smile through a maze of wowless sagas, into which George and many many others will enter, uttering...1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, published 2010

Forms of wowless

comparativemore wowless
superlativemost wowless

Origin of wowless

From wow + -less.

Questions about wowless

What does wowless mean?
Wowless means free of wows.
What part of speech is wowless?
Wowless is an adjective.

Words near wowless in the dictionary

  1. wowf
  2. wowie
  3. wowie kazowie
  4. wowie zowie
  5. wowing
  6. wowless
  7. wownd
  8. wownded
  9. wownding
  10. wownds
  11. Wowochim

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