Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈkʌlə(ɹ).ləs/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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ˈkʌlə(ɹ).ləs
Pronunciation notes
- GB
Adjective
Having little or no colour.
Usage- UK usage
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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.
More examples (2)
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.
The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
Water white.
Usage- UK usage
- of a liquid
Lacking in interest or variety.
Usage- UK usage
Neutral in opinion or allegiance; centrist
Usage- UK usage
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They cannot, of course, assume a colourless position because they cater to the radical rank and file and would be branded renegades.
Adjective
lacking in variety and interest
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- Antonyms
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a colorless and unimaginative person
a colorless description of the parade
weak in color; not colorful
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