contentless
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒn.tɛnt.lɪs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: kŏn'tĕnt, IPA(key): /ˈkɑn.tɛnt.lɪs/
Adjective
contentless (not comparable)
- Lacking content.
- a beautiful but essentially contentless book
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənˈtɛnt.lɪs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective
contentless (comparative more contentless, superlative most contentless)
- Discontented; dissatisfied.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], line 246:
- Best state, contentless, / Hath a distracted and most wretched being, / Worse than the worst, content.
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