Contentless vs Contextless - What's the difference?
contentless | contextless |
Lacking content.
Discontented; dissatisfied.
* 1607 , , IV. iii. 246:
without context
* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=March 24, author=Mia Lily Clarke, Monica Kendrick, Brian McManus, title=Short Takes on Recent Releases, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Like their fellow Glaswegians in Arab Strap, Scatter like to add contextless and slightly cryptic monologues to their music--an unfortunate predilection, since the delivery usually sounds forced and overstrict alongside the impulsive swells of the band's free-folk drone. }}
* {{quote-journal, 2000, date=December 22, David Foster Wallace, FICTION: Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama, Science
, passage=What is a problem, though, is that the fictional math in WN is extremely important but also extremely vague, comprising mostly repeated and contextless verbiage--"If I could only establish its K-reducibility with the aid of a suitable calibrator set!" }}
As adjectives the difference between contentless and contextless
is that contentless is lacking content while contextless is without context.contentless
English
Adjective
(-)- a beautiful but essentially contentless book
- Best state, contentless , / Hath a distracted and most wretched being, / Worse than the worst, content.
contextless
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Adjective
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