contourless
English
Adjective
contourless (not comparable)
- Without a contour or contours.
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 2, in Burmese Days:
- Mrs Lackersteen was a woman of about thirty-five, handsome in a contourless, elongated way, like a fashion plate.
- 1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, London: Heinemann, Section One, p. 112,
- They would carry their private grief on their faces for a few weeks more before hiding it inside and resuming the communal, contourless monotony of prison life.
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