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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)

  1. (UK) 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
  2. (UK) Water white.
  3. (UK) Lacking in interest or variety.
  4. (UK) 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

comparativemore colorless
superlativemost 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

  1. colorized
  2. colorizer
  3. colorizers
  4. colorizes
  5. colorizing
  6. colorless
  7. colorlessly
  8. colorlessness
  9. colormaker
  10. colormakers
  11. colormaking

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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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