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colorless

Adjective

Meaning

Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.

Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Noam Chomsky

She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. Kate Chopin

Love is the force that leaves you colorless. Ovid

One of my contemporaries, a colorless chap who worked much harder at his law studies, is now Prime Minister. Alex Cox

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white - I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless. Marian Anderson

Although my mother gave me courage [and power], I do not thank her for yielding to your trickery; prematurely aged, colorless and pale, I hate happy people, and nothing gives me pleasure! Richard Wagner

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