Definition of colourless Colourless
/kˈʌlələs/
We found 5 definitions of colourless from 2 different sources.
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British English
colourless - /kˈʌlələs/
American English
colorless - /kʌˈlɚlʌs/
What does colourless mean?
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| colourless - weak in color; not colorful | ||
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| colourful, colorful having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves" | ||
| achromatic, neutral having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white" | ||
| vividness, color, colour the appearance of objects (or light sources) described in terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness (or brightness) and saturation | ||
| ashen, blanched, livid, bloodless, white anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" | ||
| bleached, faded, washed-out, washy having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors" | ||
| somber, sombre, drab, sober grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" | ||
| greyed, dulled deprived of color; "colors dulled by too much sun"; "greyed with the dust of the road" | ||
| etiolate, etiolated, blanched (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light; "etiolated celery" | ||
| lurid shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke; "a lurid sunset"; "lurid flames" | ||
| pallid, wan, pale lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile" | ||
| pastelike, pasty resembling paste in color; pallid; "he looked pasty and red-eyed"; "a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white" | ||
| prefaded (of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means | ||
| waxlike, waxen, waxy having the paleness of wax; "the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor"- Bram Stoker; "the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him"; "a thin face with a waxy paleness" | ||
| colourless - lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade" | ||
| colorless | ||
| colourful, colorful having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves" | ||
| dull (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" | ||
| neutral having no net electric charge | ||
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