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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

captureless en · ADJ

Etymology

From capture + -less.

Meanings

  1. That captures or captured nothing.
    • Poetry's captureless incipience is unavailable to such brutal measures which, rather than participating in the subtleties of the poem, slice them up according to the dominant deceits of public discourse. 2013, Anthony Howe, Byron and the Forms of Thought:
  2. (broadly) (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.

Forms

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more captureless Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most captureless Degree=Sup lexicographic