colourless
Etymology

From colour + -less.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈkʌlə(ɹ).ləs/
Adjective

colourless

  1. Having little or no colour.
    • 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 ↗:
      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.
  2. (of a liquid) Water white.
  3. Lacking in interest or variety.
  4. (politics) Neutral in opinion or allegiance; centrist
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