Meaning & use

Colorless

adjective·Everyday

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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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