"characterless" meaning in English

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "characterlessly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "characterlessness"
    }
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      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From character + -less.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more characterless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most characterless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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          "_dis": "78 22",
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          "_dis": "87 13",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, William Cooper Nell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution:",
          "text": "The great mass of American citizens estimate us, as being a characterless and purposeless people ; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation's scorn and contempt.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts:",
          "text": "The House of All Sorts was new and characterless. It had not yet found itself—and an apartment house takes longer to find itself than do individual private houses.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having no distinguishing character or quality."
      ],
      "id": "en-characterless-en-adj-UvHOWcPV",
      "links": [
        [
          "distinguishing",
          "distinguishing"
        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "quality",
          "quality"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "99 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "having no distinguishing character or quality",
          "word": "charakterlos"
        }
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "The letter within was written in the same straggling, characterless caligraphy, — I should have said, had I been asked offhand, that the whole thing was the composition of a servant girl.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 16:",
          "text": "It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking in or devoid of personality."
      ],
      "id": "en-characterless-en-adj-aUyRNhKv",
      "links": [
        [
          "personality",
          "personality"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "characterless"
}

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    "Pages with 1 entry",
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "characterlessly"
    },
    {
      "word": "characterlessness"
    }
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From character + -less.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more characterless",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most characterless",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, William Cooper Nell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution:",
          "text": "The great mass of American citizens estimate us, as being a characterless and purposeless people ; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation's scorn and contempt.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts:",
          "text": "The House of All Sorts was new and characterless. It had not yet found itself—and an apartment house takes longer to find itself than do individual private houses.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having no distinguishing character or quality."
      ],
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        [
          "distinguishing",
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        ],
        [
          "character",
          "character"
        ],
        [
          "quality",
          "quality"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
          "text": "The letter within was written in the same straggling, characterless caligraphy, — I should have said, had I been asked offhand, that the whole thing was the composition of a servant girl.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 16:",
          "text": "It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking in or devoid of personality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "personality",
          "personality"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "having no distinguishing character or quality",
      "word": "charakterlos"
    }
  ],
  "word": "characterless"
}