Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a print. Receiving or bearing no print or impression.
- Making no print or impression.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Making no imprint.
- adjective Making no imprint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective without an
imprint . - adjective without
printing , void of printing things.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word printless.
Examples
-
Treads with soft female form the printless strands,
Progress of Society 2006
-
A stone fish sting corroded the skin off the sole of the shell collector's own heel, years ago, left the skin smooth and printless.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
-
A stone fish sting corroded the skin off the sole of the shell collector's own heel, years ago, left the skin smooth and printless.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
-
A stone fish sting corroded the skin off the sole of the shell collector's own heel, years ago, left the skin smooth and printless.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
-
A hundred feet below me, the newfallen snow lay in a wide, white patch, undisturbed and printless.
The Viking Claw Michael Dahl 2001
-
Prospero, addressing the elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves, those that on the sands with printless foot chased the ebbing
-
The Alpine climber, intent on mastering a printless snow-peak, has not to control an appetite sharpened by mountain air from sinking into the gluttony which would be fatal to the cool head and steady foot necessary for his enterprise.
The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis Ellice Hopkins
-
The blurring of the print upon the key and the printless condition of the other side of it is, I think, accounted for by the fact that the pocket in which it was found contained also a handkerchief, a matchbox, and several other small objects.
The Key Wentworth, Patricia 1944
-
Underfoot was like walking on thicknesses of flannel, and except where we put our feet the place was as printless as a snowfield -- dust, dust, unbroken grey dust.
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
-
It is a world where one may still faintly hear the horns of elfland blowing, and where Hob-trush Hob and little Nanny Button-cap wander on printless feet through the star-lit glades; where charms are still recited when the moon is new, and where on
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.