Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lacking a definite or positive character; commonplace; uninteresting; weak.
  • Unrecorded, as in history.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having no distinguishing character or quality

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting

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Examples

  • My brother used to have a job that paid him to go spend days in characterless chain hotels in Singapore and Paris which of course is very different from being paid to spend days in Singapore and Paris themselves and he traded that job in for one that pays him to stay at home in Connecticut, but at least he gets to see Connecticut.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • My brother used to have a job that paid him to go spend days in characterless chain hotels in Singapore and Paris which of course is very different from being paid to spend days in Singapore and Paris themselves and he traded that job in for one that pays him to stay at home in Connecticut, but at least he gets to see Connecticut.

    Questions of travel 2009

  • Let us pause for a moment to give thanks for Defamer; now that Gawker is run by the kind of characterless swots your parents always wanted you to turn out like, there is a rapidly-shrinking pool of sources for good blog post swipitation.

    the Reverend Ted speaks! to sexiest man alive George Clooney « raincoaster 2006

  • In regard to the character-drawing I may say that I have tried to make my figures rather "characterless," and I have done so for reasons I shall now state.

    Plays by August Strindberg, Second series August Strindberg 1880

  • The kind of 'characterless' idiot like you, said that you submitted three names excluding yourself.

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2009

  • And in case you're wondering what Ayesha Takia has lashed out at Baba Ramdev for, well, the dude apparently said that all actors were "characterless".

    The India Uncut Blog 2009

  • Are teenage girls and boys who are in a relationship 'characterless'?

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • (retd) Manmohan Singh Liberhan on Monday said he was not a "characterless" person who would hand it over to the media.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • "characterless" pilsners brewed by Budweiser and Miller.

    Missoula Independent 2010

  • "characterless" are some of the adjectives heaped by self-appointed critics on his designs.

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

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