Contentless
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Lacking content. not-comparable
"a beautiful but essentially contentless book"
- 2 Discontented; dissatisfied.
"Best state, contentless, / Hath a distracted and most wretched being, / Worse than the worst, content."
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More examples"In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse."
Etymology
From content (“subject matter”) + -less.
From content (“contentment, satisfaction”) + -less.
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