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colorless
adjective
1 colorless
Lacking in variety and interest:
— A colorless and unimaginative person.
— A colorless description of the parade.
synonym: colourless.
Roget 160:
weak,
feeble,
debile†;
impotent
etc.
158;
relaxed,
unnerved,
etc.
v.;
sapless,
strengthless†,
powerless;
weakly,
unstrung,
flaccid,
adynamic†,
asthenic†;
nervous.
soft,
effeminate,
feminate†,
womanly.
frail,
fragile,
shattery†;
flimsy,
unsubstantial,
insubstantial,
gimcrack,
gingerbread;
rickety,
creaky,
creaking,
cranky;
craichy†;
drooping,
tottering
etc.
v..
broken,
lame,
withered,
shattered,
shaken,
crazy,
shaky;
palsied
etc.
158;
decrepit.
languid,
poor,
infirm;
faint,
faintish†;
sickly
etc.
(disease)
655;
dull,
slack,
evanid†,
spent,
short-winded,
effete;
weather-beaten;
decayed,
rotten,
worn,
seedy,
languishing,
wasted,
washy,
laid low,
pulled down,
the worse for wear.
unstrengthened
etc.
159†,
unsupported,
unaided,
unassisted;
aidless†,
defenseless
etc.
158;
cantilevered
(support)
215.
on its last legs;
weak as a child,
weak as a baby,
weak as a chicken,
weak as a cat,
weak as a rat;
weak as water,
weak as water gruel,
weak as gingerbread,
weak as milk and water;
colorless
etc.
429.
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Roget 429:
uncolored
etc.
(color)
etc.
428;
colorless,
achromatic,
aplanatic†;
etiolate,
etiolated;
hueless†,
pale,
pallid;
palefaced†,
tallow-faced;
faint,
dull,
cold,
muddy,
leaden,
dun,
wan,
sallow,
dead,
dingy,
ashy,
ashen,
ghastly,
cadaverous,
glassy,
lackluster;
discolored
etc.
v..
light-colored,
fair,
blond;
white
etc.
430.
pale as death,
pale as ashes,
pale as a witch,
pale as a ghost,
pale as a corpse,
white as a corpse.
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Roget 575:
feeble,
bald,
tame,
meager,
jejune,
vapid,
bland,
trashy,
lukewarm,
cold,
frigid,
poor,
dull,
dry,
languid;
colorless,
enervated;
proposing,
prosy,
prosaic;
unvaried,
monotonous,
weak,
washy,
wishy-washy;
sketchy,
slight.
careless,
slovenly,
loose,
lax
(negligent)
460;
slipshod,
slipslop†;
inexact;
puerile,
childish;
flatulent;
rambling
etc.
(diffuse)
573.
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2 colorless
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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