characterless

From character +‎ -less.

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characterless (comparative more characterless, superlative most characterless)

1. Having no distinguishing character or quality.
   • 1855, William Cooper Nell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution:

     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.

   • 1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts:

     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.

   • 2025 April 2, “Saluting Scotland's magnificent Inter 7?”, in RAIL, number 1032, page 55:

     In recent times, the track has been straightened out and a new, somewhat characterless, station has been built just to the east.

2. Lacking in or devoid of personality.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     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.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 16:

     It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.

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