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colourless

adj
/ˈkʌlə(ɹ).ləs/UK

Etymology

From colour + -less.

Definitions

  1. Having little or no colour.

    • 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.
    • Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
    • The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.

  2. Water white.

  3. Lacking in interest or variety.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Neutral in opinion or allegiance

      Neutral in opinion or allegiance; centrist

      • They cannot, of course, assume a colourless position because they cater to the radical rank and file and would be branded renegades.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at colourless. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01colourless02interest03attention04alertness05alert06brisk07effervescing08effervescence09carbon

A definitional loop anchored at colourless. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at colourless

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA