 colorless |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] (color) without color | |
| Synonyms: | uncolored uncoloured colourless | |
| Examples: | "pure water is uncolored" |
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| Related terms: | colored achromatous achromic achromatic color | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] (color) lacking in variety and interest | |
| Synonyms: | colourless | |
| Examples: | "a colorless and unimaginative person" "a colorless description of the parade" |
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| Related terms: | colorful pale neutral dull | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] (color) weak in color; not colorful | |
| Synonyms: | colourless | |
| Related terms: | colorful bleached pale ashen pasty drab waxen dulled white etiolate lurid prefaded achromatic color | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life | |
| Synonyms: | hole-in-corner hole-and-corner | |
| Examples: | "a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community"- H.G.Wells |
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| Related terms: | insignificant | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] (color) having no hue | |
| Synonyms: | achromatic | |
| Related terms: | chromatic gray coal-black blue-black argent pearly slate-gray neutral oxford-gray sable ebon snow-white whitish hueless canescent chalky iron-gray blackish lily-white milk-white charcoal auburn off-white ink-black ash-gray hue | |
| Similar spelling: |
colourless collarless colour_line color_line |
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