featureless

Without distinguishing features.

Adjective

  1. Without distinguishing features.
    • a featureless brick wall
    • This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness. - 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New...
    • The branch is three and a half miles long over virtually level, featureless countryside. - 1961 May, Mark B. Warburton, “Yatton and its branches to Clevedon and Wells”, in Trains Illustrated, page 278:

Origin

Etymology tree English feature Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English featureless From feature + -less.

Forms

more featureless most featureless

Derived

featurelessly featurelessness