Searchless
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
"Th'inticing Smile; the modest-seeming eye, Beneath whose Beaueous Beams, belying Heaven, Lurk searchless Cunning, Cruelty, and Death: And still, false-warbling in his cheated Ear, Her syren Voice, enchanting, draws him on, To guileful Shores, and Meads of fatal Joy."
- 2 Vast; Too massive or great to be fully known.
"O Goodness searchless! Thou who once didst walk With man on earth, with man familiar talk,!"
- 3 That arrives at a solution by analytic means, rather than by trial and error or iterative searching.
"Finding of the optimum regime, corresponding to the extremum of the quality index, may be carried out by an automatic search (search and extremal ACS) or by a searchless way ( searchless or analytical ACS)."
Example
More examples"Th'inticing Smile; the modest-seeming eye, Beneath whose Beaueous Beams, belying Heaven, Lurk searchless Cunning, Cruelty, and Death: And still, false-warbling in his cheated Ear, Her syren Voice, enchanting, draws him on, To guileful Shores, and Meads of fatal Joy."
Etymology
From search + -less.
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