colorless
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Synonyms & Antonyms for colorless
Synonyms
tintless [archaic], uncolored, undyed, unpainted, unstained, white
Antonyms
colored, colorized, dyed, hued, painted, pigmented, stained, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted
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Instead they are cooked up by the brain from mixtures of different wavelengths of colorless electromagnetic radiation. — Anil K. Seth, Scientific American, "The Neuroscience of Reality," 27 Aug. 2019 Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that is extremely harmful to humans and can often result in death. — Fox News, "Satellite imagery of Amazon rainforest fire shows massive carbon monoxide pollution plume," 27 Aug. 2019 Worldwide, the rocks are believed to contain billions of tons of the odorless, colorless gas, which is a key constituent of natural gas as well as a potent greenhouse gas. — Tom Metcalfe, NBC News, "'Massive pool' of methane discovered hidden deep underground," 27 Aug. 2019 Infrared spectrometry identified the ink as a colorless lead carboxylate. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Physicists discover hidden text in what was thought to be blank Egyptian papyri," 22 Aug. 2019 And don’t be misled by the photos of brownish-yellow water coming out of pipes in the famously lead-contaminated city of Flint, Michigan — lead in drinking water is generally colorless, tasteless and odorless. — Noah Smith, Twin Cities, "Noah Smith: Clean up lead before it wrecks more American lives," 21 July 2019 Below, a colorless ammonium hydrosulfide layer could be reacting with cosmic rays or solar UV radiation. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Hey, What's Up With Jupiter's Great Red Spot?," 12 Aug. 2019 In the wide-shot photo the cross looms against a colorless sky as a crowd of people, dressed in white and black, huddles nearby, heads lowered. — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, "Photo Requests from Solitary Confinement," 8 July 2019 And after the state’s governor appointed colorless placeholder Luther Strange to fill the Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions (who left to become U.S. attorney general), Moore handily defeated Strange — 55–45 percent — in a primary-runoff election. — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, "Steve King and Roy Moore Don’t Belong in the GOP," 6 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'colorless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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