Definition of "characterless"

The great mass of American citizens estimate us, as being a characterless and purposeless people ; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation's scorn and contempt.

1855, William Cooper Nell, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution

The House of All Sorts was new and characterless. It had not yet found itself—and an apartment house takes longer to find itself than do individual private houses.

1944, Emily Carr, “Friction”, in The House of All Sorts

The letter within was written in the same straggling, characterless caligraphy, — I should have said, had I been asked offhand, that the whole thing was the composition of a servant girl.

1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle

It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 16