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Definition of colourless in English: colourless(US colorless) adjective ˈkʌləlɪsˈkələrləs 1(especially of a gas or liquid) without colour. Example sentencesExamples - Ethene is a colorless gas that can be collected from natural gas and crude oil.
- The distilled essential oil is colourless or tinged very pale yellow so it does not stain.
- Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas that can poison you if you breathe too much of it.
- The rare gases are all colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
- When it leaves the still, tequila, like most spirits, is colorless.
- Carbon monoxide is colourless and odourless, and is produced when gas fails to burn completely.
- Radon condenses to a clear, colorless liquid at its boiling point and then freezes to form a yellow, then orangish red solid.
- Sarin is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid that has no odor in its pure form.
- At atmospheric temperatures, ozone is a colorless gas with an odor similar to chlorine that can usually be detected at a level of about 0.01 parts per million.
- Because carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless and disperses immediately into the air, few realize how much spills out of tailpipes and smokestacks.
- At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor.
- It is a colourless gas produced by the decay of organic matter such as raw sewage, oils, and salt water.
- Some other liquids may be clear and colorless, but water is unique!
- At room temperature and standard pressure ethers are colorless, neutral liquids with pleasant odors.
- Chemically, nitrous oxide is a colorless gas with a slightly sweet odor and no appreciable taste at normal ambient temperature and pressure.
- At normal room temperatures and pressures ammonia exists as a colorless gas that is lighter than air and has a characteristic pungent odor.
- Coconut oil is a colorless to pale brownish yellow oil with a melting point starting at 26 § C.
- In its pure state, nicotine is a colorless, oily, acrid liquid.
- Carbon monoxide injuries and deaths occur when levels of the tasteless, odorless and colorless gas build up in poorly ventilated spaces where a carbon-based fuel is burned.
- Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
- Phosphine, generated from aluminum phosphide and water, is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a fishy or garlic-like odor.
- This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
Synonyms uncoloured, white, bleached, faded, washed out literary achromatic technical achromic - 1.1 Dull or pale in hue.
Example sentencesExamples - Her skin hung off her face in limp saggy folds, colorless and gray, like wet cement.
- Pale, almost colorless eyes looked out from under thin brows.
- Tabitha, who once could have been the toast of the town, was looking drawn and colorless.
- When I placed the sandwich and salad before her, she looked up at me and gave a weak smile; I noticed how colorless her lips were and how gray her hair was becoming.
- With rather thin lips and colorless cheeks, he bore the distinguished face of an ailing man.
- I turned him round and his lips were blue, his eyes were colourless and he was lifeless.
- His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
- The palest of blue eyes, almost colorless, scanned the room from under a fashionable coiffure of blond hair.
- The light was harsh, the sky was flat and colourless and there were no clouds.
- I knew that when he said that my face went more colorless than it already is except for red across my cheeks.
- His cheeks were colorless and the sweat trickled from his brow.
- He had tiny, tiny little eyes, and pale colorless and limp hair, that was badly in need of a cutting.
- Thick, curling eyelashes shaded her lowered eyes, standing against dark yet colorless cheeks.
- Her skin was incredibly pale, almost colorless, and her eyes were dull.
- Beryl looks frightened, her face drawn and colorless.
- A tear slipped down Michael's colorless cheek, and he was grateful that Justin suddenly became fascinated with the view so he could wipe it away undetected.
- Pale, colorless hair poked out from between the bandages that covered his head, and his eyes were a bloodshot yellow.
- Big black patches had settled under my eyes, and my lips and cheeks were horribly colorless.
- Both were a deep green color that caused the grey of his eyes to appear pale and colorless in comparison.
- His skin was, sure enough, pale and colorless.
Synonyms pale, pallid, wan, anaemic, bloodless, ashen, white, white as a ghost/sheet, grey, jaundiced, waxen, chalky, chalk-white, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached rare etiolated
2Lacking distinctive character or interest; dull. the book is rather colourless, like its author Example sentencesExamples - The world seemed dull and colorless, and gray as Paula's despairing heart.
- Everything is a uniform shade of grey, built out of old power station parts and conduits, populated by drab, colourless people.
- It's so colourless, so dull, so hellish here, a very poor substitute for what I've lost.
- Unlike many of the colourless characters in golf, there is much more to him than putting and winning tournaments.
- Seldom in world history can so much power have been wielded by such an apparently colourless character.
- They have a talented squad, but their performances are so often colourless and mediocre.
- Life without restriction is, colorless, jaded, and uninspired.
- It has been characterised as an era of colourless politicians, ill-judged initiatives in foreign policy, tentative reforms, parliamentary corruption, and economic weakness.
- Did this man whose entire life has been spent as an office worker in dull and colorless businesses in rural Pennsylvania just suddenly have a Walter Mitty fantasy that happened to come true?
- What we saw that day was colourless, dull and unimaginative.
- This does not mean that his account is bland and colourless, but he is striving for scholarly objectivity and clarity as far as that is possible under the circumstances.
- Beyond that, her soprano is strangely colorless, and her projection of the text flat and matter-of-fact.
- His family life was dreary; his married life colourless.
- The country has had a coalition government of right and left parties for some time, which has increasingly been criticised for being too colourless and weak.
- She knew that without Davie her world would be colorless and dull.
- Worse, his singing continues to be monotonously loud and colorless, without a trace of grace, style, or musical shape.
- A couple of seasons of too much talk, too many colorless characters, and not enough action have left the show in limbo.
- His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team.
- Depression is not beautiful and romantic; it's dismal and colourless and sad and boring.
- Visually, it's as exciting as a soap opera: flat and colourless.
Synonyms uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, drab, dreary, wearisome unexciting, bland, non-stimulating, unimaginative, uninspiring, uninspired, weak, insipid, lustreless, lacklustre, vapid, flat, stale, trite, vacuous, feeble, pallid, wishy-washy, limp, lame, tired, lifeless, torpid, unanimated, zestless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, barren, tame, bloodless, antiseptic middle-of-the-road, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, mediocre, nondescript, characterless, mundane, inoffensive, humdrum, prosaic
Derivatives adverb Breathing life into time periods that were painted colorlessly in history books was an art I wanted to recreate. Example sentencesExamples - Not only is it colorlessly written but it ignores much fascinating material.
- Her entire report was delivered colorlessly, without any shade of emotion.
- It is constructed well enough but moves ponderously and colorlessly to its conclusion.
- Some of the actors deliver their lines so colorlessly I want to slow the speed down to make the drama and delivery more interesting.
noun The writing is understated to the point of colorlessness, evoking little passion or humor. Example sentencesExamples - A few years later, the Goncourt brothers saw in the colorlessness of black-and-white photography a metaphor for the dreariness of their age.
- He was at the highest levels of an organization famous for its rectitude and colorlessness - a place where most employees were about as talkative as bricks, with personalities to match.
- The hallways themselves seemed imposing; their very colorlessness made them daunting and cold.
- The sharp contrast between this rail and the colorlessness of my home brings me comfort, to know that perhaps somewhere my pastel family still harbors affection for that which is vivid and unrestrained.
Definition of colorless in US English: colorless(British colourless) adjectiveˈkələrləsˈkələrləs 1(especially of a gas or liquid) without color. Example sentencesExamples - When it leaves the still, tequila, like most spirits, is colorless.
- The distilled essential oil is colourless or tinged very pale yellow so it does not stain.
- The rare gases are all colorless, odorless, and tasteless.
- Coconut oil is a colorless to pale brownish yellow oil with a melting point starting at 26 § C.
- It is a colourless gas produced by the decay of organic matter such as raw sewage, oils, and salt water.
- At room temperature and standard pressure ethers are colorless, neutral liquids with pleasant odors.
- In its pure state, nicotine is a colorless, oily, acrid liquid.
- Carbon monoxide injuries and deaths occur when levels of the tasteless, odorless and colorless gas build up in poorly ventilated spaces where a carbon-based fuel is burned.
- Ethene is a colorless gas that can be collected from natural gas and crude oil.
- At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor.
- Radon condenses to a clear, colorless liquid at its boiling point and then freezes to form a yellow, then orangish red solid.
- Carbon monoxide is colourless and odourless, and is produced when gas fails to burn completely.
- Some other liquids may be clear and colorless, but water is unique!
- Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas that can poison you if you breathe too much of it.
- At normal room temperatures and pressures ammonia exists as a colorless gas that is lighter than air and has a characteristic pungent odor.
- Radon is a naturally occurring colourless, odourless gas that is emitted from rocks containing minerals rich in the transuranic elements.
- This colorless, solid cream works to temporarily fill in lines and large pores, and leaves a soft, opalescent finish that feels very silky.
- Phosphine, generated from aluminum phosphide and water, is a highly toxic, colorless gas with a fishy or garlic-like odor.
- Sarin is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid that has no odor in its pure form.
- Because carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless and disperses immediately into the air, few realize how much spills out of tailpipes and smokestacks.
- At atmospheric temperatures, ozone is a colorless gas with an odor similar to chlorine that can usually be detected at a level of about 0.01 parts per million.
- Chemically, nitrous oxide is a colorless gas with a slightly sweet odor and no appreciable taste at normal ambient temperature and pressure.
Synonyms uncoloured, white, bleached, faded, washed out - 1.1 Dull or pale in hue.
Example sentencesExamples - Big black patches had settled under my eyes, and my lips and cheeks were horribly colorless.
- I knew that when he said that my face went more colorless than it already is except for red across my cheeks.
- His face was nearly colorless, his skin pale and waxen.
- He had tiny, tiny little eyes, and pale colorless and limp hair, that was badly in need of a cutting.
- When I placed the sandwich and salad before her, she looked up at me and gave a weak smile; I noticed how colorless her lips were and how gray her hair was becoming.
- Both were a deep green color that caused the grey of his eyes to appear pale and colorless in comparison.
- Her skin hung off her face in limp saggy folds, colorless and gray, like wet cement.
- Thick, curling eyelashes shaded her lowered eyes, standing against dark yet colorless cheeks.
- Tabitha, who once could have been the toast of the town, was looking drawn and colorless.
- His skin was, sure enough, pale and colorless.
- The light was harsh, the sky was flat and colourless and there were no clouds.
- The palest of blue eyes, almost colorless, scanned the room from under a fashionable coiffure of blond hair.
- Pale, almost colorless eyes looked out from under thin brows.
- Pale, colorless hair poked out from between the bandages that covered his head, and his eyes were a bloodshot yellow.
- Her skin was incredibly pale, almost colorless, and her eyes were dull.
- A tear slipped down Michael's colorless cheek, and he was grateful that Justin suddenly became fascinated with the view so he could wipe it away undetected.
- I turned him round and his lips were blue, his eyes were colourless and he was lifeless.
- With rather thin lips and colorless cheeks, he bore the distinguished face of an ailing man.
- Beryl looks frightened, her face drawn and colorless.
- His cheeks were colorless and the sweat trickled from his brow.
Synonyms pale, pallid, wan, anaemic, bloodless, ashen, white, white as a ghost, white as a sheet, grey, jaundiced, waxen, chalky, chalk-white, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached
2Lacking distinctive character or interest; dull. the book is rather colorless, like its author Example sentencesExamples - The country has had a coalition government of right and left parties for some time, which has increasingly been criticised for being too colourless and weak.
- His colorless mediocrity exemplifies why I lost interest in the team.
- She knew that without Davie her world would be colorless and dull.
- They have a talented squad, but their performances are so often colourless and mediocre.
- This does not mean that his account is bland and colourless, but he is striving for scholarly objectivity and clarity as far as that is possible under the circumstances.
- Worse, his singing continues to be monotonously loud and colorless, without a trace of grace, style, or musical shape.
- Seldom in world history can so much power have been wielded by such an apparently colourless character.
- Beyond that, her soprano is strangely colorless, and her projection of the text flat and matter-of-fact.
- Depression is not beautiful and romantic; it's dismal and colourless and sad and boring.
- His family life was dreary; his married life colourless.
- What we saw that day was colourless, dull and unimaginative.
- Life without restriction is, colorless, jaded, and uninspired.
- Did this man whose entire life has been spent as an office worker in dull and colorless businesses in rural Pennsylvania just suddenly have a Walter Mitty fantasy that happened to come true?
- Everything is a uniform shade of grey, built out of old power station parts and conduits, populated by drab, colourless people.
- It's so colourless, so dull, so hellish here, a very poor substitute for what I've lost.
- A couple of seasons of too much talk, too many colorless characters, and not enough action have left the show in limbo.
- Visually, it's as exciting as a soap opera: flat and colourless.
- The world seemed dull and colorless, and gray as Paula's despairing heart.
- Unlike many of the colourless characters in golf, there is much more to him than putting and winning tournaments.
- It has been characterised as an era of colourless politicians, ill-judged initiatives in foreign policy, tentative reforms, parliamentary corruption, and economic weakness.
Synonyms uninteresting, dull, boring, tedious, monotonous, dry, drab, dreary, wearisome
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