colourless

colourless

English

Alternative forms

• colorless (American spelling)

Etymology

colour +‎ -less

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlə(ɹ).ləs/

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Adjective

colourless (comparative more colourless, superlative most colourless)(British spelling)

1. Having little or no colour.
   • 1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons […], New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, OCLC 1320657, page 1:

     The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 14:

     Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.

2. (of a liquid) Water white.
3. Lacking in interest or variety.

Synonyms

• (having little or no colour): see also Thesaurus:achromatic
• (of a liquid): clear, waterlike; see also Thesaurus:transparent
• (lacking in interest): drab, dull; see also Thesaurus:boring

Derived terms

• colourlessly
• colourlessness

 

Translations

having no colour

Armenian: անգույն (hy) (anguyn) Asturian: incoloru Bulgarian: безцве́тен (bg) m (bezcvéten) Catalan: incolor Chinese: Cantonese: 無色, 无色 (mou4 sik1) Mandarin: 無色／无色 (zh) (wúsè) Czech: bezbarvý (cs) Dutch: kleurloos (nl) Esperanto: senkolora Finnish: väritön (fi) French: sans couleur, incolore (fr) Galician: incoloro German: farblos (de) Greek: άχρωμος (el) (áchromos) Hungarian: színtelen (hu) Icelandic: litlaus (is) Ido: senkolora (io) Italian: incolore (it) Japanese: 無色の (ja) (むしょくの, mushoku no) Korean: 무색의 (ko) (musaegui) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بێڕەنگ‎ (bêrreng) Northern Kurdish: bêreng (ku) Manx: neughaaoil Maori: kanokore Norwegian: Bokmål: fargeløs (no) Nynorsk: fargelaus Persian: بی‌رنگ‎ (fa) (birang) Polish: bezbarwny (pl) m Portuguese: incolor (pt) Romanian: incolor (ro) m or n, fără culoare Russian: бесцве́тный (ru) (bescvétnyj) Slovak: bezfarebný (sk) Spanish: incoloro (es) Swedish: färglös (sv) Telugu: రంగులేని (raṅgulēni) Turkish: renksiz (tr) Ukrainian: безба́рвний (uk) (bezbárvnyj), безко́лірний (uk) (bezkólirnyj)

See also

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