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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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colourless 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. 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. He remembered what a colourless slip of a thing she had looked the day he had met her at the station. |
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