colourless

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English colour Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English colourless From colour + -less.

1. Having little or no colour.

   “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.”

   “Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.”

2. Water white.
3. Lacking in interest or variety.
4. Neutral in opinion or allegiance; centrist

   “They cannot, of course, assume a colourless position because they cater to the radical rank and file and would be branded renegades.”