Adjective
Having no distinguishing character or quality.
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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.
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.
In recent times, the track has been straightened out and a new, somewhat characterless, station has been built just to the east.
Lacking in or devoid of personality.
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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.
It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.
Adjective
lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting
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women dressed in nondescript clothes
a nondescript novel