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adjective

Colorless adj.

Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water; a colorless gas. Note: (Narrower terms: ashen, bloodless, livid, lurid, pale, pallid, pasty, wan, waxen; neutral; white) (Also See: achromatic, colorless.)

Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

Having lost its normal color. Note: (Narrower terms: blanched, etiolate, etiolated, whitened; bleached, faded, washed-out, washy; dimmed, dulled, grayed; dirty; dull, sober, somber, subfusc). Antonym: colored.

Synonyms: colorless, uncolored, uncoloured.

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Etymology of 'Colorless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... imaginative? One may possess in the mind an inexhaustible treasure of facts and images and yet produce nothing: great travelers, for example, who have seen and heard much, and who draw from their experiences only a few colorless anecdotes; men who were partakers in great political events or military movements, who leave behind only a few dry and chilly memoirs; prodigies of reading, living encyclopedias, who remain crushed under the load of their ...

— Essay on the Creative Imagination • Th. Ribot

... Fletcher, and I'm in a hurry," I answered boldly, and when he ushered me into the dwelling I saw what I had expected. Minnie lay back limp and colorless in a big chair by the stove. Fletcher knelt close beside her chafing her wrists, and the table was littered with wrappings, while Tetley frowned at me from one end ...

— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

... all slowly back again into her purse. Her face was still absolutely colorless. She laid the purse on the ...

— A Sweet Girl Graduate • Mrs. L.T. Meade

... with other fragrant materials for making sachet powders, and the oil mixed with other fluids for liquid perfumes. Various similar anise combinations are largely used in perfuming soaps, pomatums and other toilet articles. The very volatile, nearly colorless oil is usually obtained by distillation with water, about 50 pounds of seed being required to produce one pound of oil. At Erfurt, Germany, where much of the commercial oil is made, the "hay" and the seeds are both used ...

— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

... poor Mrs. Burton frantic. And she grew the longest, thinnest pair of legs and arms in Europe; and her hair seemed to lose its wonderful lustre; and her skin, upon which Mrs. Burton had banked so much, became colorless and opaque and a little blotched around the chin. And she was so nervous and overgrown that she would throw you a whole fit of hysterics during piano lessons; and she prayed so long night and morning that her bony knees developed callouses; and when ...

— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris

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