context-free

adjective

con·​text-free ˈkän-ˌtekst-ˈfrē 

: of, relating to, or being a grammar or language based on rules that describe a change in a string without reference to elements not in the string

also : being such a rule

Examples of context-free in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Echoing expert advice about avoiding health misinformation, Sharp suggests consumers should be suspicious of vague, oversimplified, context-free statements about the causes and fixes of inflammation, especially ones from people who make money off your attention. —Keren Landman, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

The Times identified multiple inaccuracies and context-free statements in BNN stories that seemed to extend beyond simple human error. —Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 6 June 2024

Last night my colleague Kylie Robison broke the news that X (formerly Twitter) plans to transform news article links shared on the platform into context-free images. —Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023

The show has always existed in a pre-nostalgic haze, the vicious realities of life in the Roy family preceded by the fragmented opening credit sequence that turns their lives into snapshots from a context-free family album. —Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for context-free

• agree
• allee
• banshee
• beastly
• bibi
• bowsprit
• carefree
• cerci
• chablis
• cowpea
• crappie
• crappy