Meaning & use
Colorless
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Lacking color or, figuratively, lacking interest, character, or vitality.
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The chemist poured a colorless liquid into the beaker.
His colorless speech failed to inspire the audience.
A note on using this word
The British spelling is "colourless"; the figurative sense describing dullness is just as common as the literal one.
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