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as in white
lacking an addition of color
since we can't decide what color to paint the doghouse, our latest home project remains colorless for the time being
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as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest
page after page of colorless prose without even one neat turn of phrase
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Recent Examples of colorless
At the time, Gaga’s avant-garde approach to rocking a colorless wardrobe was the height of cool.
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Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Mar. 2025
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas that can affect those who are in close proximity to smoldering fires.
—Omer Awan, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Versatility Reigns Supreme Vodka’s universal appeal lies in its simplicity — colorless, odorless and tasteless.
—Patrick Shorb, Rolling Stone, 26 Dec. 2024
While making an animal feed additive, the plant releases ethylene oxide, a colorless gas linked to leukemia and breast cancer.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colorless
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More white people claim the credit than Black people certainly.—
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Black people make up about 14% of the U.S. population but are three times more likely to face hunger than white people, according to the Agriculture Department.—
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Camilla told Newsweek that her husband, Linford, 32, works as a tunnel boring machine operator in London.—
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Take it from this guy, who bought the beautiful Starfield limited-edition Xbox controller, headset, and console wrap for over $200, only to play the game and dump it after 20 boring hours.—
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Plus, Rogen has been transparent about whom this character is based on.—
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Instead, have a transparent conversation about integrating with core solutions, flexibility and customization, and your roadmap for practical, pragmatic adoption of AI.—
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The additional compounds in matcha dull this effect.—
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For the rest of us, a real musical comedy is a cause for celebration; most are either too tuneless to be musicals or too dull to be comedies.—
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Like Napoleon’s Uncle Rico, who dwells on his long-ago high-school-football days, Garrett is living in the faded aura of past glory: in his case, a 1989 video-game championship.—
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As thousands of migrants cycled through its faded lobby, the Roosevelt turned into a lightning rod in the country’s immigration debate: both as a reminder of the depth of the crisis and as shorthand for critics opposed to the expenditure of taxpayer money on migrants.—
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The building Celine now occupies what used to be a slow pop-up for Dior and Loro Piana.—
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Of the slow, unsexy work of loving someone even in the worst times.—
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Friendships built on insecurity, where men constantly have to prove their manhood, are a breeding ground for toxic attitudes and stupid decision-making.—
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Also, his team told him over the radio, basically, don’t do anything stupid, Nato is going to be penalized for not using all his Attack Mode.—
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On the outskirts of Lima, Peru, locals stumbled upon some dusty items in a vacant lot.—
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The difficult history of one girl’s community unfolds in a world inspired by the humid swamps and bayous near New Orleans and the dusty sawmills of LaSalle Parish.—
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“Colorless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colorless. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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