Meanings
adjectivecolorless (comparative more colorless, superlative most colorless)
comparative more colorless · superlative most colorless
- USstandardUS standard spelling of colourless.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveweak in color; not colorful
Opposite
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱel-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱélōs
- Proto-Italic*kelōs
- Old Latincolōs
- Latincolor
- Old Frenchcolor
- Anglo-Normancolur
- Middle Englishcolour
- Englishcolor
- Proto-Indo-European*lewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*lewHs-
- Proto-Germanic*leusaną
- Proto-Germanic*lausaz
- Englishcolorless
Cite this entry
APA
colorless. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colorless
MLA
“colorless.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colorless. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “colorless,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/colorless.
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