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I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.
George Steiner

Meaning of "colourless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLOURLESS

colourless  [ˈkʌləlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLOURLESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Colourless is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COLOURLESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Colourless

Colourless may refer to: ▪ Transparency and translucency, transmitting all or most colours ▪ Neutral density filter ▪ Monochrome, images in a single colour ▪ Black-and-white, images in gray scale ▪ Boring objects may be referred to as colourless...

Definition of colourless in the English dictionary

The first definition of colourless in the dictionary is without colour. Other definition of colourless is lacking in interest. Colourless is also grey or pallid in tone or hue.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLOURLESS


acropolis
əˈkrɒpəlɪs
airless
ˈɛəlɪs
Annapolis
əˈnæpəlɪs
careless
ˈkɛəlɪs
chrysalis
ˈkrɪsəlɪs
desireless
dɪˈzaɪəlɪs
driverless
ˈdraɪvəlɪs
fingerless
ˈfɪŋɡəlɪs
gearless
ˈɡɪəlɪs
hairless
ˈhɛəlɪs
Indianapolis
ˌɪndɪəˈnæpəlɪs
metropolis
mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs
Minneapolis
ˌmɪnɪˈæpəlɪs
paperless
ˈpeɪpəlɪs
peerless
ˈpɪəlɪs
Perlis
ˈpɛəlɪs
powerless
ˈpaʊəlɪs
propolis
ˈprɒpəlɪs
tireless
ˈtaɪəlɪs
wireless
ˈwaɪəlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLOURLESS

colouring
colouring book
colourisation
colourise
colouriser
colourist
colouristic
colouristically
colourization
colourize
colourizer
colourlessly
colourlessness
colourman
colourmen
colourpoint cat
colours
colourwash
colourway
coloury

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLOURLESS

borderless
bottomless
carless
characterless
cheerless
collarless
colorless
errorless
fatherless
fearless
flourless
genderless
hammerless
humorless
leaderless
motherless
rudderless
starless
sugarless
tearless
waterless

Synonyms and antonyms of colourless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COLOURLESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «colourless» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of colourless

Translation of «colourless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLOURLESS

Find out the translation of colourless to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of colourless from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «colourless» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无色
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incoloro
570 millions of speakers

English

colourless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेरंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عديم اللون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бесцветный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

incolor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বর্ণহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incolore
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak berwarna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

farblos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無色の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무색
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ora ana warna
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không màu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிறமற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रंगहीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

renksiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incolore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezbarwny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безбарвний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

incolor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άχρωμο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kleurloos
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

färglös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fargeløs
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of colourless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOURLESS»

The term «colourless» is regularly used and occupies the 63.478 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOURLESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «colourless» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «colourless» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about colourless

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3 QUOTES WITH «COLOURLESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word colourless.
1
Don Cheadle
I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.
2
Maxwell
Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'
3
George Steiner
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLOURLESS»

Discover the use of colourless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to colourless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously is a collection of short essays that are pithy, aphoristic, and full of fresh insights and witticisms in the manner of Kafka’s Parables and Paradoxes, Eduardo Galeano’s Book of Embraces, or ...
Mark Frutkin, 2012
2
Pharmaceutical Journal: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and ...
Colourless. Colourless. Pale yellowish. Colourless. Colourless. Colourless. Yellow. Colourless. Colourless. Almost colourless. Brownish red, then brown. Colourless. Colourless, then reddish, then pale red. Colourless. Yellowish. Yellowish.
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The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Discourses ...
Paraxylyl bromide melts at 35'5°. Paraxylylene bromide melts at 143'5°. Paraxylyl cyanide, prepared from the bromide by the action of potassium cyanide, is a colourless liquid having a strong aromatic odour ; on cooling it solidifies and melts ...
Chemical Society (Great Britain), Sir Humphry Davy, Bureau of Chemical Abstracts (Great Britain), 1885
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Allen's Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the ...
Silk is dyed a deep red and cotton or artificial silk remains colourless. The writer finds that the time taken to " diazotise " the fibre must not be less than 30 minutes, and the sodium nitrite solution will act more readily if it be increased to 5%.
Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann, William Alfred Davis, 1913
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IFIS Dictionary of Food Science and Technology
Also a colourless, transparent liquid with a fruity, brandy-like aroma used in food flavourings. Ethylene Highly flammable, colourless hydrocarbon gas with a sweetish aroma and flavour. Slightly soluble in water and alcohol. Occurs in natural ...
International Food Information Service, 2009
6
Competition Science Vision
The light radiations corresponding to such small amount of energy which are required for this d-d transition are available in visible light. • The transition metals ions which have fully filled d- orbitals (d10) are colourless. There is no vacant ...
7
Annales Du 17e Congrès D'Associationi Internationale Pour ...
29: CCF28; UE 108; colourless. 30: CCF29; UE 108; colourless, strong weathering. 31: CCF33; UE 108; colourless. 32: CCA9; UE 520; colourless with green tinge. 33: CCA16; well; colourless. 34: CSA3; sitja abadia; colourless with yellow ...
Koen Janssens, 2009
8
Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry
At first sight there would seem to be no absolute necessity to assume an essential difference of structure for coloured, as distinguished from colourless bodies. One might conceive, as was indeed formerly held, that the manifestation of colour in ...
9
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science
20 Capsules laid Larvae hatched (colourless) Larvce colourless Larvae colourless; in 6, 5, or fewer, colourless vacuoles scattered over the body Larvae colourless ; vacuoles persistent and empty Larvae colourless; vacuoles persistent ; some ...
10
New Pathways In Inorganic Chemistry
... s-- (-02--0-) Colourless solid s- - (-8-) Colourless solid --0 (—--) Colourless liquid --- (--) Colourless solid --8 (7-) Colourless solid -8-- (in) Colourless solid -8- 8 s- (--) sublimes Colourless solid --0 (--6) Colourless solid s - (-7-) Colourless solid ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLOURLESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term colourless is used in the context of the following news items.
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South Carolina: F-16 fighter jet and Cessna 150 collision results in …
Emergency service radios reported one of the planes was carrying hydrazine, a colourless highly flammable liquid. The US Air Force fire ... «International Business Times UK, Jul 15»
2
What you need to know about date rape drugs
This is colourless, tasteless, and odourless, is very potent, and causes what's called anterograde amnesia – which basically means that the ... «Globalnews.ca, Jul 15»
3
Doncaster's Still Open All Hours is slated by Aussies
“As Granville, Jason is colourless, his character of yesteryear having lost all his eccentrically oppressed charm and become a faded photocopy ... «Epworth Bells, Jul 15»
4
President gives out over 6000 bags of sugar to Muslims
This is exactly what the Gambian leader is doing and a point worth mentioning in this is the fact that his move is politically colourless, as the ... «Daily Observer, Jul 15»
5
Spice is nice
Note: Eugenol, a chemical compound that is a colourless to pale yellow oily liquid, extracted from the essential oils of clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, ... «Trinidad News, Jul 15»
6
Nutritionist warns of dehydration dangers amid drought
... a light shade of yellow. If it's bright yellow, almost concentrated, you need more water in your system. If it's colourless, cut down on the fluids. «Jamaica Gleaner, Jul 15»
7
Chlorine Trifluoride: The Chemical That Sets Fire To Asbestos On …
As a gas, chlorine trifluoride is colourless and has a notably “sweet and pungent” odour not dissimilar from pool chlorine. As a liquid, the ... «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
8
Global Benzene Market to Grow at a CAGR of 4.68 Percent From …
It is a colourless, highly flammable liquid with a sweet odour. It is primarily used as a precursor to heavy chemicals such as ethylbenzene and ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
9
A parable of family tension in a troubled country
For most of the book he is an almost colourless observer, as though the bolts of power that flash between his older brothers push him into ... «Echonetdaily, Jul 15»
10
Killed By A Rs.10 Glass Of Hooch
The colourless liquid that sells at Rs.10/- for a single pouch was the deadly industrial solvent methanol mixed with water and masked by ... «Newslaundry, Jul 15»

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