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styleless, a.|ˈstaɪllɪs|
[f. style n. + -less.]
1. Devoid of style, in various senses. Hence ˈstylelessness.
1796A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 196 An abode which, though a mansion..spacious to my utmost wish, breathes of nothing above the level of mere common and stileless life. 1886Contemp. Rev. July 106 The modern styleless Parisian images..which are now the eyesore of most Roman Catholic churches. 1893Stevenson Lett. (1899) II. 314 The British pig returns to his true love, the love of the styleless, of the shapeless, of the slapdash and the disorderly. 1911H. O. Taylor Mediaeval Mind II. vi. xxxi, The only trouble is stylelessness. In fine, an absence of quality characterizes Carolingian prose. 1912Nation 20 Apr. 96/1 All his novels..are styleless, formless, abounding in digressions.
2. Bot. Of an ovary: Having no styles.
1821S. F. Gray Brit. Plants I. 152 Ovary..Style-less, acephalum. Not having any styles. |