colorless

English

Etymology

From color +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌl.ə.ləs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌl.ɚ.ləs/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

colorless (comparative more colorless, superlative most colorless)

1. US standard spelling of colourless.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• colorless green ideas sleep furiously
• colorlessly
• colorlessness