[syn: colorless, colourless]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Colorless \Col"or*less\, a.
1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent;
as, colorless water; a colorless gas.
Note: [Narrower terms: ashen, bloodless, livid, lurid, pale,
pallid, pasty, wan, waxen; neutral; white] [Also
See: achromatic, colorless.]
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar
sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes,
prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style;
definitions should be colorless.
[1913 Webster]
3. having lost its normal color.
Note: [Narrower terms: blanched, etiolate, etiolated,
whitened; bleached, faded, washed-out, washy;
dimmed, dulled, grayed; dirty; dull, sober,
somber, subfusc] colored
Syn: colorless, uncolored, uncoloured.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
colorless
adj 1: lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and
unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the
parade" [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant:
colorful, colourful]
2: weak in color; not colorful [syn: colorless, colourless]
[ant: colorful, colourful]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
128 Moby Thesaurus words for "colorless":
abstract, achromatic, achromic, aloof, anemic, arid, ashen, ashy,
barren, blah, blanched, bland, blank, bled white, bloodless,
blurry, boring, cadaverous, characterless, chloranemic, cold, dead,
deadly pale, deathly pale, detached, dim, dimmed, dingy,
discolored, disinterested, dismal, dispassionate, doughy, drab,
draggy, drearisome, dreary, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete,
elephantine, empty, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine,
exsanguineous, fade, faded, faint, fallow, feeble, flat, ghastly,
gray, haggard, hazy, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, hueless, hypochromic,
impersonal, inane, inexcitable, insipid, jejune, lackluster,
leaden, lifeless, livid, low-spirited, lurid, lusterless, mat,
mealy, milk-and-water, muddy, namby-pamby, neutral, obscure, pale,
pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pedestrian, plodding,
pointless, poker-faced, poky, ponderous, prosaic, prosy, remote,
sallow, sickly, slow, solemn, spiritless, sterile, stiff, stodgy,
stuffy, superficial, tallow-faced, tasteless, tedious, toneless,
uncolored, unimaginative, uninspired, uninteresting, unlively,
vacuous, vague, vapid, wan, washed out, washed-out, waxen, weak,
whey-faced, white, wishy-washy, withdrawn, wooden