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colorless

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col·or·less  (klr-ls)
adj.
1. Lacking color.
2. Weak in color; pallid.
3. Lacking animation, variety, or distinction; dull. See Synonyms at dull.
color·less·ly adv.
color·less·ness n.
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Adj.1.colorless - lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade"
colourless
dull - lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"
colourful, colorful - striking in variety and interest; "a colorful period of history"; "a colorful character"; "colorful language"
2.colorless - weak in color; not colorful
colourless
achromatic, neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"
colorful, colourful - having striking color; "colorful autumn leaves"
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He was a little chap, with a colorless face and the whitest, blankest eyes I ever saw.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle,--a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context
But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colorless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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