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Definition of colorless
: lacking color: such asa : pallid, blanched a colorless complexionb : dull, uninteresting colorless prose
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adverbcolorlessness
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Examples of colorless in a Sentence
since we can't decide what color to paint the doghouse, our latest home project remains colorless for the time being
page after page of colorless prose without even one neat turn of phrase
Recent Examples of colorless from the Web
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Since 2007, Quasar has built 14 digesters that turn food waste, fry oils, sewage and animal manure into gases containing a high amount of methane, an odorless, colorless, highly flammable gas.
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My life would be so colorless without my family in the LGBTQ community.
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The online business (https://www.rungh.com/) offers kits containing 18 pigment capsules and six 11-milliliter bottles of a colorless base, capable of producing at least 132 different colors.
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Their Smart Straws are designed to detect the colorless, odorless drugs that rapists often use to subdue and then assault their victims, USA Today reports.
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The set opens up in a colorless world, based on the 1939 movie’s black and white beginning.
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The potential of this technique is vast: In Croatia, scientists are using it to search caves for a blind, colorless aquatic salamander known as the cave dragon, or olm.
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Other activists put the death toll at more than 100 and claimed that sarin gas, a colorless, odorless agent that is lethal if inhaled or touches the skin, had been deployed in the strike.
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There’s a sad, puppyish quality to , Netflix’s latest colorless Marvel series.
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First Known Use of colorless
14th century
COLORLESS Defined for English Language Learners
colorless
playDefinition of colorless for English Language Learners
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: lacking color
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: dull or boring : not interesting
COLORLESS Defined for Kids
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