captionless
- adjective
- /ˈkæpʃənləs/
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sin subtítulos
- The teacher showed a series of captionless images to encourage students to interpret the artwork in their own way.
Examples
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The gallery featured several captionless photographs, inviting viewers to form their own narratives.
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In the documentary, some scenes were captionless, allowing the visuals to speak for themselves.
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Descriptive captions and captionless pictures resulted in about equal recall.
Academic text (1992) -
The High School Geography Project, like many others, included games, simulations, captionless filmstrips, picture card exercises, recordings, and new types of sound filmstrips.
Academic text (1991) -
More common instructional materials are films, pamphlets, captionless film strips, recordings, photographs, and simulations, which American commentators suggest are among the reasons why the New Social Studies was not accepted by American teachers.
Academic text (1993) -
In keeping with the spirit of inquiry learning, many of the new resources abandoned textbooks altogether and asked teachers instead to use film, pamphlets, captionless film strips, recordings, photographs, and simulations.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
Not having a short written note that explains it
Antonyms
How Captioned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Captionless is formed from caption, a short title or description for a picture, and -less, which means 'without'. So captionless describes an image or video 'without a caption', left with no words so people can give it their own meaning.