colorless
Americanadjective
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without color.
Pure water is colorless.
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pallid; dull in color.
a colorless complexion.
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lacking vividness or distinctive character; dull; insipid.
a colorless description of the parade.
- Synonyms:
- lackluster, drab, dreary, unexciting
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unbiased; neutral.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of colorless
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at color, -less
Example Sentences
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Colorless and odorless, methane is a potent greenhouse gas that traps 83 times more heat in the atmosphere over a 20 year period than an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2022
Colorless wings can be shiny, so butterflies have evolved ways of reducing reflected light.
From Scientific American • Nov. 1, 2021
Kakutani was quite consistently a Murakami skeptic, writing lukewarm reviews of his other books like After the Quake and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.
From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2017
Murakami's book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage sold one million copies in one day in Japan.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2015
Colorless forms of medium size-in some cases they may be green by Zoochlorella.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)
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