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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COLORLESS, a. Destitute of color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as colorless water, glass or gas.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: lacking in variety and interest; "a colorless and unimaginative person"; "a colorless description of the parade" [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant: colorful, colourful]
2: weak in color; not colorful [syn: colorless, colourless] [ant: colorful, colourful]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century lacking color: as a. pallid, blanched <a colorless complexion> b. dull, uninteresting <colorless prose> • colorlessly adverb • colorlessness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Colorless Col"or*less, a. 1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water. 2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Uncolored, untinged, achromatic. 2. Pale, pallid, blanched, hueless, livid. 3. Dull, monotonous, characterless, blank, expressionless, inexpressive.

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unlively, vacuous, vague, vapid, wan, washed out, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white, wishy-washy, withdrawn, wooden