colourless
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++col·our·less British English, colorless American English /ˈkʌlələs $ ˈkʌlər-/ adjective 1 COLOUR/COLORhaving no colour 无色的 a colourless odourless gas 一种无色无味的气体2. if your face, hair, eyes, skin, or lips are colourless, they are very pale, usually because you are ill or frightened 苍白的，无血色的3 BORINGnot interesting or exciting 无趣味的；不刺激的；不生动的 SYN dull his colourless personality 他那乏味的个性 —colourlessly adverbExamples 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.col·our·less adjectiveChineseSyllable
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col‧our‧less
British English, colorless American English /ˈkʌlələs $ ˈkʌlər-/ adjective
a colourless odourless gas
2. if your face, hair, eyes, skin, or lips are colourless, they are very pale, usually because you are ill or frightened
3. not interesting or exciting
SYN dull:
his colourless personality
—colourlessly adverb
col‧our‧less
British English, colorless American English /ˈkʌlələs $ ˈkʌlər-/ adjective Word Family: noun: COLOUR/COLOR, COLOURING/COLORING, coloration, COLOURANT/COLORANT, COLOURIST/COLORIST; adjective: COLOURED/COLORED, discoloured/discolored, COLOURFUL/COLORFUL ≠ COLOURLESS/COLORLESS, multicoloured, COLOUR/COLOR; verb: COLOUR/COLOR; adverb: COLOURFULLY/COLORFULLY ≠ COLOURLESSLY/COLORLESSLY
1. having no colour: 2. if your face, hair, eyes, skin, or lips are colourless, they are very pale, usually because you are ill or frightened
3. not interesting or exciting
SYN dull:
—colourlessly adverb