📄 Without images 🏭 Not attractive

pictureless

1 5.6

Not having pictures or drawings

adjective
/ˈpɪkʧərləs/

: sin imágenes

Many pictureless brochures can be found at the library, highlighting information without images.

Examples

This was a pictureless card, bought with a stamp already printed on it.

Fiction book (1993)
The textbook was pictureless, focusing solely on detailed explanations of the concepts.
And when it finally, reluctantly, disappeared, I dropped off into a pictureless sleep.

Fiction book (1994)
They decided to publish a pictureless edition of the novel to make it more affordable.

Synonyms

imageless

vspictureless

1 6.6

Something that has no pictures or clear description to help you see it

means no physical illustrations rather than absence of mental imagery

nongraphic

vspictureless

1 6.3

Not using pictures or images

is about absence of illustrations specifically rather than broader graphics

How Illustrated

illus.

Specialized

1 6.4

pictureless

1 5.6

Surface Forms

pictureless positive

Morphology

pictureless = picture (transparent) = picture + less

Direct, productive formation: 'picture' + '-less' yields 'without pictures/illustrations', which a B1 learner can derive.

Etymology

Pictureless comes from picture and the ending -less, which means 'without', just like in hopeless and careless, so it literally means 'without pictures'.