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Definition of Colorless
1. Adjective. Lacking in variety and interest. "A colorless description of the parade"
2. Adjective. Weak in color; not colorful.
Attributes: Color, Colour, Vividness
Also: Achromatic, Neutral
Similar to: Ashen, Blanched, Bloodless, Livid, White, Bleached, Faded, Washed-out, Washy, Drab, Sober, Somber, Sombre, Dulled, Greyed, Blanched, Etiolate, Etiolated, Lurid, Pale, Pallid, Wan, Pastelike, Pasty, Prefaded, Waxen, Waxlike, Waxy, White, Whitened
Antonyms: Colorful
Derivative terms: Colorlessness, Colourlessness
Definition of Colorless
1. a. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
Definition of Colorless
1. Adjective. (Chiefly American English) (alternative spelling of colourless) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colorless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colorless
Literary usage of Colorless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"The yellow esters are much more easily hydrolyzed than the colorless esters.
The presence or absence of color, however, is not sufficient to characterize ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"Tschermak (86) secured in F1 from maple X colorless, brown maple seed coat without
purple specks. These F/s gave in F2, 52 maples: 17 dark brown selfs: i ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1910)
"When any of its colorless solutions in organic solvents are evaporated to dryness
the original colorless carbinol chloride is recovered unchanged. ..."
4. Text-book of normal histology: Including an Account of the Development of by George Arthur Piersol (1896)
"The morphological constituents of the blood are of two kinds, the colorless or
white corpuscles and the colored or red cells; to these must .be added a ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"By the action of this bromid dissolved in acetic acid upon acetate of silver an
oily liquid was obtained, boiling at 268° centigrade, neutral, colorless, ..."
6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1858)
"The bromid is a heavy colorless liquid which, at a temperature below ten degrees
centigrade, crystallizes in beautiful colorless prisms. ..."
7. Biographical Memoirs by National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (1905)
"is without color, the ions of both elements are also colorless. So, too, since
no relation exists between the color of an atom and that of its molecule, ..."
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