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contourless en · ADJ

Etymology

From contour + -less. Cognate with Swedish konturlös.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a contour or contours.
    • Mrs Lackersteen was a woman of about thirty-five, handsome in a contourless, elongated way, like a fashion plate. 1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:
    • 1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, London: Heinemann, Section One, p. 112, They would carry their private grief on their faces for a few weeks more before hiding it inside and resuming the communal, contourless monotony of prison life.

Deriveds

contourlessness

Translations (2)

sv konturlös (Translations) · pl bezkonturowy (Translations)