colourless
English
Alternative forms
- colorless (American spelling)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌlə(ɹ).ləs/
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Adjective
colourless (comparative more colourless, superlative most colourless) (British spelling)
- Having little or no colour.
- 1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons […], New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, OCLC 1320657, page 1:
- The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 14:
- Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
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- (of a liquid) Water white.
- Lacking in interest or variety.
Synonyms
- (having little or no colour): see also Thesaurus:achromatic
- (of a liquid): clear, waterlike; see also Thesaurus:transparent
- (lacking in interest): drab, dull; see also Thesaurus:boring
Derived terms
Translations
having no colour
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See also
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