colourless

col·our·less British EnglishBrE, colorless American English /ˈkʌlələs $ ˈkʌlər-/ adjectiveadj

1 COLOUR/COLORhaving no colour 無色的

a colourless odourless gas

一種無色無味的氣體

2. if your face, hair, eyes, skin, or lips are colourless, they are very pale, usually because you are ill or frightened 蒼白的，無血色的

3 BORINGnot interesting or exciting 無趣味的；不刺激的；不生動的 SYN dull

his colourless personality

他那乏味的個性

—colourlessly adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

colourless• The glare of the nauseous streetlights which made the world faceless and colourless.• Woolley's training programme was grindingly hard, tent-life cold, wet and colourless, and the news from the front depressing.• Everything was grey, wet and colourless as we stood by the rail watching the luggage being unloaded into the custom sheds.• Tait stroked his beard again with long, elegant fingers, appraising her with colourless eyes.• Until you looked into his strangely colourless eyes.• Standing at the right angle, we are dazzled by the colours of the rainbow in colourless ice.• They were slim, pale and elegant, and she wore colourless or pearl nail varnish.• I dimly remembered having watched the sun set, copper orange over a colourless world.

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colourless (also colorless) adj.
⇨ clear 3 (a colourless liquid) ⇨ drab (a colourless voice)

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colourless