"contextless" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Etymology: From context + -less. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|context|less}} context + -less Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} contextless (not comparable)
  1. without context Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: contextlessness
    Sense id: en-contextless-en-adj-2ocavB8- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -less, Pages with 1 entry
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          "ref": "2006 March 24, Mia Lily Clarke, Monica Kendrick, Brian McManus, “Short Takes on Recent Releases”, in Chicago Reader:",
          "text": "Like their fellow Glaswegians in Arab Strap, Scatter like to add contextless and slightly cryptic monologues to their music--an unfortunate predilection, since the delivery usually sounds forced and overstrict alongside the impulsive swells of the band's free-folk drone.",
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          "ref": "2000 December 22, David Foster Wallace, “FICTION: Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama”, in Science, volume 290, number 5500, →DOI, pages 2263–2267:",
          "text": "What is a problem, though, is that the fictional math in WN is extremely important but also extremely vague, comprising mostly repeated and contextless verbiage--\"If I could only establish its K-reducibility with the aid of a suitable calibrator set!\"",
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