colorless
UK/ˈkʌl.ə.ləs//ˈkʌl.ɚ.ləs/
colorless is the US standard spelling of colourless.
Meaning of colourless
Adjective
colourless (comparative more colourless, superlative most colourless)
- Having little or no colour.
- The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons […], New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, →OCLC, page 1
- Synonyms:
- dull, dingy, achromatic, colorless, hueless, bland, dim, faint, lackluster, leaden
- Water white.
- Synonyms:
- clear, waterlike, clear as crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid, limpid, lucid
- Lacking in interest or variety.
- Neutral in opinion or allegiance; centrist
- They cannot, of course, assume a colourless position because they cater to the radical rank and file and would be branded renegades.1926, David Joseph Saposs, Left Wing Unionism: A Study of Radical Policies and Tactics, page 73
- Synonyms:
- moderate
Forms of colorless
| comparative | more colorless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most colorless |
Origin of colorless
From color + -less.
Words formed from colorless
Questions about colorless
- What is colorless the US standard spelling of?
- Colorless is the US standard spelling of colourless.
- How do you pronounce colorless?
- Colorless is pronounced /ˈkʌl.ə.ləs/ (UK).
Words near colorless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: colorless (page history and authors); colourless (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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