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
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
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