Synonyms of the word

colorless

• adj. American standard spelling of colourless.

achromatic

• adj. (optics) Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
• adj. Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
• adj. (biology) Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue.
• adj. (music) Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
• adj. Being achromatic in subject.

ashen

• adj. Made from the wood of the ash-tree.
• adj. Of or resembling ashes.
• adj. Ash-colored; pale; anemic.

blanched

• adj. lacking complexion or color.
• adj. bleached.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of blanch.

bleached

• adj. whitened; made white using bleach.
• adj. Having the hair lightened by bleaching.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of bleach.

bloodless

• adj. Lacking blood; ashen, anaemic.
• adj. Taking place without loss of blood.
• adj. Lacking emotion, passion or vivacity.

colourless

• adj. Having little or no colour.
• adj. (of a liquid) Water white.
• adj. Lacking in interest or variety.

drab

• adj. Dull, uninteresting, particularly of colour.
• n. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
• n. The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
• n. A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• n. (dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.
• n. (dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.
• n. A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
• v. (obsolete) To consort with prostitutes.

dull

• adj. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
• adj. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
• adj. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
• adj. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; slow of understanding.
• adj. Sluggish, listless.
• adj. Cloudy, overcast.
• adj. Insensible; unfeeling.
• adj. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
• adj. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
• adj. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
• v. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
• v. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
• v. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
• v. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

dulled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dull.

etiolate

• v. To make pale through lack of light, especially of a plant.
• v. To make pale and sickly-looking.
• v. (intransitive) To become pale or blanched.
• adj. etiolated.

etiolated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of etiolate.
• adj. Blanched because of sunlight deprivation or excessive exposure to sunlight.
• adj. (botany) Grown in the dark.
• adj. (figuratively) Lacking in vigour, feeble, anemic.

faded

• v. simple past tense and past participle of fade.
• adj. (sometimes figuratively) That has lost some of its former colour or intensity.

greyed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of grey.

livid

• adj. Having a dark, bluish appearance.
• adj. Pale, pallid.
• adj. (informal) So angry that one turns pale, very angry, furious.

lurid

• adj. Shocking, horrifying.
• adj. Melodramatic.
• adj. Ghastly, pale, wan in appearance.
• adj. Being of a light yellow hue.
• adj. (botany) Having a brown colour tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
• adj. (zoology) Having a colour tinged with purple, yellow, and grey.

neutral

• adj. Not taking sides in a conflict such as war; nonaligned.
• adj. Favouring neither the supporting nor opposing viewpoint of a topic of debate; unbiased.
• adj. (grammar) Neither positive nor negative.
• adj. Neither beneficial nor harmful.
• adj. (biology) Having no sex; neuter.
• adj. Having no obvious colour; gray.
• adj. (physics) Neither positive nor negative; possessing no charge or equivalent positive and negative charge…
• adj. (chemistry) Having a pH near 7, neither acidic nor alkaline.
• n. A nonaligned state, or a member of such a state.
• n. A person who takes no side in a dispute.
• n. An individual or entity serving as an arbitrator or adjudicator (jargon / legal).
• n. A neutral hue.
• n. The position of a set of gears in which power cannot be transmitted to the drive mechanism.
• n. An electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground.

pale

• adj. Light in color.
• adj. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
• adj. Feeble, faint.
• v. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
• v. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
• v. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
• n. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
• n. A wooden stake; a picket.
• n. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
• n. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
• n. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.
• n. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
• n. (archaic) A territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction.
• n. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
• n. A cheese scoop.
• n. A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.
• v. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

pallid

• adj. Appearing weak, pale, or wan.

pastelike

• adj. Resembling paste.

pasty

• adj. Like paste, sticky.
• adj. pale, lacking colour, having a pallor.
• adj. (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) white-skinned.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) A small item of clothing that conceals little more than the nipple of a woman's…
• n. A type of seasoned meat and vegetable pie, usually of a semicircular or distinctive shape. A (savory)…

prefaded

• adj. Given a faded appearance at the time of manufacture.

sober

• adj. not drunk; not intoxicated.
• adj. not given to excessive drinking of alcohol.
• adj. moderate; realistic; serious; not playful; not passionate; cool; self-controlled.
• adj. dull; not bright or colorful.
• adj. subdued; solemn; grave.
• v. (often with up) To make or become sober.
• v. (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication.

somber

• adj. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
• adj. Dark, lacking color or brightness.
• v. Alternative form of sombre.

sombre

• adj. Dark; gloomy.
• adj. Dull or dark in colour.
• adj. Melancholy; dismal.
• adj. Grave.
• n. (obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness.
• v. To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

wan

• adj. Pale, sickly-looking.
• adj. Dim, faint.
• adj. Bland, uninterested.
• n. The quality of being wan; wanness.
• n. Eye dialect spelling of one, representing Ireland English.
• n. (Ireland) girl or woman.
• v. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of win.

washed-out

• adj. lacking colour, as if faded.
• adj. tired, jaded and lacking animation.

washy

• adj. Watery; damp; soft.
• adj. Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble.
• adj. (US, dialect, archaic) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labour.
• n. (childish or poetic, rare) A wash, an act of washing.

waxen

• adj. (Britain, dialectal) Grown.
• v. alternative past participle of wax.
• v. (obsolete) plural simple present form of wax.
• adj. Made of wax; covered with wax.
• adj. Of or pertaining to wax.
• adj. Having the pale smooth characteristics of wax, waxlike, waxy.
• adj. (rare) Easily effaced, as if written in wax.

waxlike

• adj. Resembling wax.

waxy

• adj. Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
• adj. (regional, colloquial) Angry.

white

• adj. Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
• adj. Relatively light or pale in colour.
• adj. Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
• adj. (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong…
• adj. Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
• adj. Honourable, fair; decent.
• adj. Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
• adj. (archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
• adj. (obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
• adj. (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
• adj. (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
• adj. (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said…
• n. The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
• n. A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
• n. The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
• n. (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
• n. Any butterfly of the Pieris genus.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
• n. (countable and uncountable) White wine.
• n. (slang) Cocaine.
• n. (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which…
• n. The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
• n. A white pigment.
• v. (transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.

whitened

• v. simple past tense and past participle of whiten.