Synonyms for colorless

Synonyms for (adj) colorless

Synonyms: colorless, colourless

Definition: weak in color; not colorful

Similar words: blanched, bloodless, white, ashen, livid

Definition: anemic looking from illness or emotion

Usage: a face turned ashen; the invalid's blanched cheeks; tried to speak with bloodless lips; a face livid with shock; lips...livid with the hue of death- Mary W. Shelley; lips white with terror; a face white with rage


Similar words: washed-out, washy, bleached, faded

Definition: having lost freshness or brilliance of color

Usage: sun-bleached deck chairs; faded jeans; a very pale washed-out blue; washy colors


Similar words: sober, somber, sombre, drab

Definition: lacking brightness or color; dull

Usage: drab faded curtains; sober Puritan grey; children in somber brown clothes


Similar words: dulled, greyed

Definition: deprived of color

Usage: colors dulled by too much sun; greyed with the dust of the road


Similar words: etiolate, etiolated, blanched

Definition: (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light

Usage: etiolated celery


Similar words: lurid

Definition: ghastly pale

Usage: moonlight gave the statue a lurid luminence


Similar words: pale, pallid, wan

Definition: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress

Usage: the pallid face of the invalid; her wan face suddenly flushed


Similar words: pastelike, pasty

Definition: resembling paste in color; pallid

Usage: he looked pasty and red-eyed; a complexion that had been pastelike was now chalky white


Similar words: prefaded

Definition: (of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means


Similar words: waxen, waxlike, waxy

Definition: having the paleness of wax

Usage: the poor face with the same awful waxen pallor- Bram Stoker; the soldier turned his waxlike features toward him; a thin face with a waxy paleness


Similar words: white, whitened

Definition: (of hair) having lost its color

Usage: the white hairs of old age


Synonyms: colorless, colourless

Definition: lacking in variety and interest

Usage: a colorless and unimaginative person; a colorless description of the parade

Similar words: neutral

Definition: lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics

Usage: a neutral personality that made no impression whatever


Similar words: pale, pallid

Definition: lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness

Usage: a pale rendition of the aria; pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender; a pallid performance


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