colorless

3 definitions found

colorless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Colorless \Col"or*less\, a.
     1. 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.]
           [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. 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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. 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
           ] colored
  
     Syn: colorless, uncolored, uncoloured.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

colorless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  colorless
      adj 1: lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and
             unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the
             parade" [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant:
             colorful, colourful]
      2: weak in color; not colorful [syn: colorless, colourless]
         [ant: colorful, colourful]

colorless - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "colorless":
     abstract, achromatic, achromic, aloof, anemic, arid, ashen, ashy,
     barren, blah, blanched, bland, blank, bled white, bloodless,
     blurry, boring, cadaverous, characterless, chloranemic, cold, dead,
     deadly pale, deathly pale, detached, dim, dimmed, dingy,
     discolored, disinterested, dismal, dispassionate, doughy, drab,
     draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete,
     elephantine, empty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine,
     exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, feeble, flat, ghastly,
     gray, haggard, hazy, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hueless, hypochromic,
     impersonal, inane, inexcitable, insipid, jejune, lackluster,
     leaden, lifeless, livid, low-spirited, lurid, lusterless, mat,
     mealy, milk-and-water, muddy, namby-pamby, neutral, obscure, pale,
     pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pedestrian, plodding,
     pointless, poker-faced, poky, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, remote,
     sallow, sickly, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy,
     stuffy, superficial, tallow-faced, tasteless, tedious, toneless,
     uncolored, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, unlively,
     vacuous, vague, vapid, wan, washed out, washed-out, waxen, weak,
     whey-faced, white, wishy-washy, withdrawn, wooden