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colourless

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colourless or US colorless
Adjective
1. without colour: a colourless gas
2. dull and uninteresting: a colourless personality
3. grey or pallid in tone or hue: a watery sun hung low in the colourless sky
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Adj.1.colourless - lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade"
colorless
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.colourless - weak in color; not colorful
colorless
achromatic, neutral - having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white"
colourless
adjective 1. uncoloured, faded, neutral, bleached, washed out, achromatic
2. ashen, washed out, wan, sickly, anaemic << OPPOSITE radiant
adjective 3. uninteresting, dull, tame, dreary, drab, lacklustre, vacuous, insipid, vapid, characterless, unmemorable << OPPOSITE interesting


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No one now needed to "feel" him; no one mistook his front for his back; all his movements were readily ascertained by his neighbours without the slightest strain on their powers of calculation; no one jostled him, or failed to make way for him; his voice was saved the labour of that exhausting utterance by which we colourless Squares and Pentagons are often forced to proclaim our individuality when we move amid a crowd of ignorant Isosceles.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
There are some bad nights in the kingdom of the West Wind for homeward-bound ships making for the Channel; and the days of wrath dawn upon them colourless and vague like the timid turning up of invisible lights upon the scene of a tyrannical and passionate outbreak, awful in the monotony of its method and the increasing strength of its violence.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
He remembered what a colourless slip of a thing she had looked the day he had met her at the station.
Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context
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