Used in a Sentence

colorless

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for colorless.

Editorial note

Clearly, for all X, X cannot be at one and the same time both green and colorless.

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Quick take

US standard spelling of colourless. [Having little or no colour.]

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of colorless gathered in one view.

adjective

US standard spelling of colourless. [Having little or no colour.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for colorless.

Example sentences

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Clearly, for all X, X cannot be at one and the same time both green and colorless.

2

Some juvenile part of me was hoping you'd say it was now a colorless, odorless gel.

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It has a lot of decorator classes that will transform your colorless UI instantly.

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After Dark is next on my list (finishing up Colorless Tsukuru Tasaki now).

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It is a colorless, volatile, flammable liquid, and is the simplest ketone.

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Larger high grade colorless man-made diamonds aren't priced all that differently than wholesale natural diamonds and have the significant downside of having almost no resale value.

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Since it's odorless and colorless, you probably wouldn't even notice.

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Norwegian Wood is probably a more typical entry point, or else Kafka On the Shore, or his latest book, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

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Carbon dioxide and water are colorless and odorless.

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[T]alking down to readers in a colorless fashion-magazine argot is such second nature that any alternative seems out of place.

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I also came here to share Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki.

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It is one thing producing brown/yellow diamond powder/grit for cutting tools, but is orders of magnitude more difficult growing a large single-crystal diamond colorless and clean enough to set into jewelry.

Quote examples

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It clearly refers to hibernating seeds: "Colorless" refers to the embryonic nature of the seeds - seeds are indeed white or transparent.

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For instance, the sentence "colorless green ideas sleep furiously" is grammatically well-formed but tremendously unlikely.

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"Green ideas" are obviously biochemical ambitions for the future - the seeds do not want to be colorless forever.

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> A classic English example is Chomsky’s “Colorless green ideals sleep furiously”—perfectly syntactically correct, but meaningless.

Proper noun examples

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I will soon start with 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage'[0] which was recommended in a previous HN thread.

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Colorless Tsukuru Tasaki I enjoyed that one a lot as well.

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'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage' by Haruki Murakami.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use colorless in a sentence?

Clearly, for all X, X cannot be at one and the same time both green and colorless.

What does colorless mean?

US standard spelling of colourless. [Having little or no colour.]

What part of speech is colorless?

colorless is commonly used as adjective.