Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Making no sign or manifestation; quiet; passive.
  • Having no algebraical sign, or being essentially positive, like the modulus of an imaginary, a tensor, etc.

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  • adjective Without a sign or signs.

Etymologies

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sign +‎ -less

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Examples

  • She suggested Hipster Pho, the stark, signless hipster mecca in an otherwise abandoned strip mall on Sunset and Silverlake Blvd, right next to the big "Escrow" sign that's missing a letter or two.

    One For The Table: Hipster Pho 2010

  • I saw one such sign and made the appropriate turn, but soon I was lost in a wilderness of apartment houses, shops, and signless intersections.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • I saw one such sign and made the appropriate turn, but soon I was lost in a wilderness of apartment houses, shops, and signless intersections.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • I saw one such sign and made the appropriate turn, but soon I was lost in a wilderness of apartment houses, shops, and signless intersections.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • I saw one such sign and made the appropriate turn, but soon I was lost in a wilderness of apartment houses, shops, and signless intersections.

    The Italian Summer Roland Merullo 2009

  • He would simply drive unannounced from town to town in a signless car often alone, and would stop and strike up conversations with people on the street.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2004

  • Turning right, he headed up a signless, structureless country highway.

    Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Pilsener beer, with _wiener Schnitzel_ or _leber-knoedel suppe_ could be obtained until the end of July, are invisible behind signless iron shutters.

    Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard

  • My memory now transports me to a mountain district in the north, but on this side of the border; and here, again, the inn is signless, and has no appearance of an inn at all.

    Some Private Views James Payn 1864

  • Since 471 deer were killed in reported crashes over the last three years, if the county goes signless that long, there will be some legitimate basis for comparison.

    The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines 2010

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