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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
colourless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everything was grey, wet and colourless as we stood by the rail watching the luggage being unloaded into the custom sheds.
▪ I dimly remembered having watched the sun set, copper orange over a colourless world.
▪ Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colours of the rainbow in colourless ice.
▪ Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.
▪ The glare of the nauseous streetlights which made the world faceless and colourless.
▪ They were slim, pale and elegant, and she wore colourless or pearl nail varnish.
▪ Until you looked into his strangely colourless eyes.
▪ Woolley's training programme was grindingly hard, tent-life cold, wet and colourless, and the news from the front depressing.
Wiktionary
colourless

a. 1 Having little or no colour. 2 (context of a liquid English) water white. 3 lacking in interest or variety.

WordNet
colourless
  1. adj. lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade" [syn: colorless] [ant: colorful]

  2. weak in color; not colorful [syn: colorless] [ant: colorful]

Wikipedia
Colourless

Colourless may refer to:

  • Transparency and translucency, transmitting all or most colours
    • Neutral density filter
  • Monochrome, images in a single colour
  • Black-and-white, images in gray scale
  • Boring objects may be referred to as colourless

Usage examples of "colourless".

Selected biochemic tissue-salts are incorporated in a smooth nongreasy, colourless base.

Farther along, the head-high thickets of tule and bullrush that had masked the stream could be seen to be colourless, rotting in the pollution of that narrow place.

The cells, instead of being filled with homogeneous purple fluid, now contain variously shaped masses of purple matter, suspended in a colourless or almost colourless fluid.

The plant which stings has a round hairy stalk, and carries only a dull colourless bloom, whereas the others are labiate herbs with square stems, and conspicuous lipped flowers.

And there lay winter outside for ever, a great leaden winepress smashing down its colourless lid of sky, squashing them all like so many grapes, mashing colour and sense and being from everyone, save the children who fled on skis and toboggans down mirrored hills which reflected the crushing iron shield that hung lower above town each day and every eternal night.

I saw on several occasions that the walls were lined with colourless flowing protoplasm, and after the baglike masses were formed, the protoplasm was still flowing along the walls in a conspicuous manner, even more so than before.

In Drosera the fluid within the cells of the tentacles at the bending place appears under the microscope thin and homogeneous, and after aggregation consists of small, soft masses of matter, undergoing incessant changes of form and floating in almost colourless fluid.

But Corkers, an eccentric old bachelor, was neither dull nor colourless.

His mean, colourless eyes wandered inquiringly over the crowd, as the mad dervishes, half-naked, some with masses of dishevelled hair, some with no hair at all, bleached, haggard, moaning and shrieking, threw themselves to the ground on the matting, while attendants pulled off their slippers and placed them under their heads, which lay face downwards.

Apart from this, he always showed us the same icy face, the same pale, hard eyes, enframed by colourless lashes.

I may here add that thin slices of the stem of the Euphorbia were placed in the same solution, and the cells which were green instantly became cloudy, whilst others which were before colourless were clouded with brown, owing to the formation of numerous granules of this tint.

The small spheres coalesce into larger spheres, or into oval, clubheaded, thread or necklacelike, or otherwise shaped masses of protoplasm, which, suspended in almost colourless fluid, exhibit incessant spontaneous changes of form.

Two other summits, with their glands colourless and their utricles not shrunk, were treated with the same solution of urea.

Many of the oblong glands were brown, and these, as well as others which still remained colourless, had their utricles more or less shrunk, some of them including small aggregated masses of matter.

When they reached the bay next morning, it looked nearly colourless, the sombre palms were nearly grey, and the sky cindery, and the sea only transparent, the beaches white.