noteless

American  

[noht-lis] / ˈnoʊt lɪs /

adjective

1. not noted; undistinguished; unnoticed.

2. unmusical or voiceless.

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Other Word Forms

• notelessly adverb
• notelessness noun

Etymology

Origin of noteless

First recorded in 1610–20; note + -less

Example Sentences

There are noteless lives, of course—lives that accept obscurity, mechanically run their narrow round of circumstance, and are lost; but when a life endeavors to lose itself,—to hide some conscious guilt or failure,—can it succeed?

From Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home by Taylor, Bayard

Nadaud's career is uneventful, but from one point of view, far from being noteless, he was pre-eminently the happy man.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

Some noteless Gaelic poet had made this into a forgotten ballad, some odd verses of which my white-capped friend remembered and sang for me.

From The Celtic Twilight by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

And in a far more venomous and violent style, the noteless mob of contemporary writers.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various

Some wretched noteless human being is crushed to death by a train, and the newspapers head their paragraph "Fearful Tragedy at Peckham Rye."

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)