Used in a Sentence

colourless

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for colourless.

Editorial note

The stories, novels and dialogs of the future is going to very boring and colourless.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Having little or no colour.

Meaning at a glance

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

adjective

Having little or no colour.

adjective

Lacking in interest or variety.

adjective

(of a liquid) Water white.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for colourless.

Example sentences

1

The stories, novels and dialogs of the future is going to very boring and colourless.

2

It would be completely colourless, if it wasn't for a handful of bizarre, childish gadgets here and there.

3

Several small languages are experimenting with algebraic effect systems [1], which would make all functions colourless.

4

And because they worked really hard on making async colourless, there is no way to know that a method call will suspend.

5

People describe Java as being colourless.

6

This is somewhat better, but why is it so drab and colourless?

7

The substance itself is colourless, just like the same herbicides today.

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By making everything colourless you implicitly assume everything is green thread.

9

They were all flat, and to a certain extent colourless.

10

If I saw a colourless liquid on a table, and I didn't know where it was from, I wouldn't just randomly drink it.

11

Better instead to go for a brandable domain rather than a colourless exact match domain * The suggestions don't take into account trademarks and existing company names.

12

Mostly colourless, though sometimes it has some abstract colours.

Quote examples

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It certainly can't create nonsensical yet understandable sentences like “Colourless green ideas sleep furiously”.

2

There's also gevent/greenlet, which tries to bolt "colourless" M:N scheduling onto Python.

3

Those games appear muddy and colourless on a real console - they actually look much better when emulated "incorrectly", because the two errors exactly cancel out!

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For example, a chapter in the original was titled "Case Colourless Green", but in the US edition of the rewrite that chapter is "Case Colorless Green" (without the 'u').

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use colourless in a sentence?

The stories, novels and dialogs of the future is going to very boring and colourless.

What does colourless mean?

Having little or no colour.

What part of speech is colourless?

colourless is commonly used as adjective.